On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster, the National Historical Museum dedicates the 2022 calendar to Smyrna, the cosmopolitan city of Ionia, the city of Levantine merchants, of letters, arts and spectacle, the multicultural Smyrna, the Smyrna of the Greeks.

Smyrna, Bayrakli, Kokaryali, Karatasi, Kordelio are just a few stations in a memory journey made with the aid of images as they are captured by the photographic lens. Photographs and letterheads from the Photographic Archive of the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece are accompanied by excerpts from literary texts, composing the image of the city and its surroundings.