A Smyrna Rug is a carpet historically woven or finished in the Turkish port city of Smyrna (modern Izmir), a major centre of the 19th-century carpet export trade to Europe and America.
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A Smyrna Rug is a carpet historically woven or finished in the Turkish port city of Smyrna (modern Izmir), a major centre of the 19th-century carpet export trade to Europe and America.