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Saturday, June 28, 2008

A BEAUTIFUL CITY-SAKARYA


The government Sakarya district takes its name from the river Sakarya. The Sakarya rises to the pastures of the Western Inneranatoliens, errecht the district border in Pamukova, draws from various adverse currents and flows in Karasu finally into the Black Sea. Until a hundred years ago branched at the Sakarya Uzunköprü in two arms and created such a small island. And that had a village built. They called it Adaköy(adakoy=island village). Soon the village was a marketplace on which the dealers in the area gathered. It was "Adapazarı" (adapazari=island market) georen. It has doubled in the last fifty years developed rapidly, to trade and industrial city millennium. In 1954, the government district Sakarya founded as a centre chosen Adapazarı.


But the history of the region extends far zrück. Sakarya, formerly belonging to Bythinischen Kingdom, later in Roman and Byzantine hand, has from time to time, the thundering hooves of the seldschukischen armies and heard in the first years after the founding of the Ottoman Empire sang the first songs of conquering this area.


The historian noted that the name Sakaryas of Sangarius "come what in the city" Sangia "zurückgehe in the field of the old Phrygiens at the point where the Sakarya rises, confessed. This city was located 3 km southeast of the town Çifteler in the government district Eskişehir. Even today originated here waters and form a small lake. You are the sources of Sakrya.

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