Gürpınar

Gürpınar

Gürpınar is 40 kilometers from Topkapı, 30 kilometers from Esenler Bus Terminal and 18 kilometers from Atatürk Airport. District; It has an area of 1800 hectares surrounded by Büyükçekmece district, Kavaklı district and the Marmara Sea. The district, which has a 7 km coastline, consists of 3 headmen's offices and the winter population was determined as 42,001 in the census conducted in 2007. The summer population is estimated to be around 100,000. District; It borders the Edirne-Ankara highway and is 10 kilometers away from the TEM highway. It is located at Tüyap Fair Center, Fatih and Beykent Universities, Beylikdüzü Endem Television Tower, Kaya İş Merkezi, shopping malls such as Carium, Perla Vista, Outlet Park, Marka City, Beylicium and Marmara Park. The first 5M is located in a place surrounded by various hypermarkets such as Migros, CarrefourSA, Real, Metro, Bauhaus and Koçtaş, automotive sales centers such as Autopia and Otoport, private hospitals such as Kaya Ramada Hotel, Medicana and Kolan, banks, business centers and sports complexes. Shopping centers and hypermarkets can be reached by free customer services passing through the district. Beylikdüzü district police station is also in Gürpınar. The history of Gürpınar dates back to the Byzantine Empire. Gürpınar's name during this period is mentioned as "Anô Arsoú" on page 249 and "Aresoú" on page 269 of the 12th volume of the book series titled Tabula Imperii Byzantini, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which describes Eastern Thrace in the Byzantine period. During the period from the Byzantine period to the years of population exchange with Greece, the local people of Gürpınar were engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry and lived their lives in scattered settlements in separate places. A few of these ancient settlements in the form of hamlets were in today's Ketengölü and Pırafça locations. In addition to fruit and vegetable farming, viticulture was highly developed in Gürpınar. After the exchange, an area from today's village center to the southern coast was almost completely covered with vineyards. In ancient times, sea bandits did not give peace to the local people who settled scattered on the land of the village. According to the common legend from before the population exchange, as a solution to this situation, a woman named Ana Ayşe, famous for her helpfulness, enabled the village people to gather in the present-day settlement center. Thus, people who went to the region said, "I am going to Ana Ayşe." It is rumored that over time, the words Ana Ayşe became "Anarşe". In the pre-Republic period, Greek people lived on most of the Marmara coast. During this period, a Muslim minority also lived in Gürpınar. It is rumored that there are 7 households, 1 Romani and 6 Turkish. The immigrants, who would later form the majority in the village, call these Turks "gacal".