YALOVA walking tour 2022 April

Yalova (Greek: Πύλαι) is a city located in northwestern Turkey, near the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Yalova has a city population of 100,863, while the population of Yalova Province is 118,998[3] as of 2011. Currently there is a controversy around the municipal election results in Yalova especially after the Supreme Election Board invalidated the 2014 Municipal Election results on April 24, 2014 after a few recounts that changed results. Shortly after, Yalova was incorporated into the territory of the Ottoman Empire. It was part of Sanjak of Kocaeli and was known as successively "Yalakabad" and "Yalıova". According to the Ottoman population statistics of 1914, the kaza of Yalova had a total population of 21.532, consisting of 10.274 Greeks, 7.954 Muslims and 3.304 Armenians.[7] It was occupied by Greek troops on 5 September 1920 during Turkish War of Independence.[8] During the occupation, Massacres in Yalova peninsula occurred. Greek troops stationed in Adapazarı, Sapanca, Kandıra, İzmit, Karamürsel and Yalova moved to Bursa and later Eskişehir region after the Greek defeat at Second Battle of İnönü for concentrating ones at line of Bursa-Uşak and attacking Turkish ones, which concentrated in Afyonkarahisar, Eskiehir and Kütahya. Turkish troops, who waited beyond Sakarya River, used this opportunity and attacked Greek positions. Adapazarı was captured by Turkish forces on 26 June 1921,[9] İzmit on 28 June 1921 and finally Yalova on 19 July 1921.[10] It was initially county centre in Karamürsel district of Kocaeli Province. It became a district centre in Istanbul Province in 1930 after joining two villages from Orhangazi before becoming a province centre in 1995.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk occasionally lived in Yalova in his final years. In one of his speeches he famously said: "Yalova is my city." #yalova #ferry #traveling

Видео YALOVA walking tour 2022 April канала Zairzade