It is a touristic village with preserved historical architecture, located in the Selçuk District of Izmir and 8 kilometers from Selçuk. It is rumored that its original name, Kırkınca, was given to forty people who hit the mountains in a legendary age. This name, which takes forms such as Kirkice, Kirkince and finally Çirkince in Greek pronunciation, was formalized as Şirince in the first years of the Republic upon the instructions of Kazım Dirik, the governor of Izmir at the time.
In the 19th century, it was known as a Greek town with 1800 households, famous for its fig production, especially for export. After the Greeks left as a result of the Turkey-Greece population exchange in 1923 (most of them settled in the Nea Efesos village of Katerini), it was settled with exchanges coming from the Müştiyan (Moustheni) and Somokol (Domatia) villages of Kavala. The economy of the village, which was previously based on viticulture, wine production and olive cultivation, was disrupted for a while at the hands of new residents coming from a tobacco region, but in parallel with its increasing touristic importance in recent years, these sectors have started to develop again. In addition to viticulture and olive cultivation, peaches, figs, apples and walnuts are grown.
The village population, which was around 2000-3000 in the 1950s and later decreased to 700, has started to rise again with the development of tourism since the 1990s. Some Greek houses in the village still serve as hostels.