Şirince was settled when Ephesus was abandoned in the 15th century but most of what one sees today dates from the 19th century.

While pondering the vast spectrum of issues, choices and approaches, let us not fail to be guided by reason and justice as the ultimate forces for galvanizing our determination to produce proper decisions and rightful actions, lest we, in the words of the philosopher of old, Heraclitus of Ephesus,