Buyukcekmece is thought to be “Athyra”, one of the important colonies that Hellenerutyrin established on the “Delta” coast in the 7th century BC. Following the Hellenes, Emperor Attila of the Great Hun, with his army in 447’ AD, went through the Fork, into the Granddock, and returned, taxing the Byzantines. The Avar Turks came to Istanbul on 616’ and the Bulgarians on 813’te Catalca under the command of Kurum Han. In 1090, the Pechenegs reached the Buyukcekmece. The Turks settled in the Byzantine delta in 1357, but the Chestnut area continued to live under Byzantine rule for a long time.
After the Ottoman-era Ottoman-Turkish War of 1829, a large number of Turkish immigrants settled in the Buyukcekmece, which was used as a hunting and barracks.In 1876, it was connected as a district of Catalca Sanjak, With the declaration of Forkaca in 1926, a parish was made connected to Fork.Magnet, which was declared municipal in 1958’, left the Forkca district in 1987’ and became an independent district. In the Byzantine and Ottoman periods, the metropolitan drawer was the point of passage and accommodation of armies and passengers. Some of them have come to the present day, some of them have already disappeared caravanserais, inns and the famous bridge of Mimar Sinan, this is an important sign of the quality of the passage. Nowadays, Buyukcekmece, while preserving the passage or bridge feature from its past, is taking firm steps towards becoming a world city with its developing environment. The legacy and contemporary values that history has left us live in harmony…
Its surface area is 213 square kilometers. There are 13 villages connected to the center. These villages are Ahmadiyya, Cakmakli, Esenyurt, Gurpinar, Hosaydere, Kaaagac, Kavakli, Krac, Kumburgaz, Architectsinan, Tepecik, Turkoba and Yakuplu. BC. In 7.yy’, the founders of the Grandkmece’, where the first settlement started, are the Helens. 2. Yy’ BC is also known by the name of Athyra, which came under Byzantine rule. After the conquest of Istanbul’, there was no dense settlement in the region as it was a page of Buyukcekmece connecting to the Ottoman Empire and the accommodation of armies in the Byzantine and Ottoman period for the agricultural resort.
The Metropolitan drawer, which was a town in Fork, in the Ottoman and Republic period, became a district in 1987. Here, there is no other significant historical monuments other than the famous bridge built by Mimar Sinan and a few caravanserai ruins. Evliya Celebi writes that in the 17th century’ of Grandkmece was a priestess attached to the womanhood of Eyup, that there was a ruined castle by the sea, a thousand maurhana, vineyards, gardens; that the town lands were foundation lands. He mentions his signature, his madrasah, his advanced bazaar, 11 inns, baths and caravanserai.A settlement center that passed through agriculture until the 1950’s, the GreatKmecekmece started industrialization after this point. B.Drawler is a small town of 1980 years ago, which was structured in the fast and modern urbanization process that started in Turkey after 20 years, today it has completed its infrastructure in European standards and is one of the favorite settlements of Istanbul.
From the point of view of urbanism, B.Drawer; settlement, zoning, infrastructure, environment, urbanization equipment with solved its problems, prepared itself to 21st y’, with the idea that modernization will be nerveless, it has become a city open to all innovations and developments. Especially after 1994, the infrastructure work was completed, its channeling, coastal and lake collector, waste water treatment plant, clean wide streets and roads, tree-winning streets, tree-raised streets, it has fulfilled all the requirements of modern urbanism with modern pedestrian sidewalks. B.Drawer, the summer resort of yesterday, is one of the few districts of Istanbul which is in demand today, which is seen as privileged, has been able to collect holiday, permanent residence, trade, industry, artistic and cultural phenomena, without slum problems.
Buyukcekmece Caravanserai: in the 16th century, in the Ottoman Empire period, there was a large range (housing) place with the Metropolitan drawer on the roads extending from Thrace to the west. On this road, there is a mosque, namazgah, three arched fountain, four section bridge and caravanserai structure in a range complex reaching to the present day. Buyukcekmece Architectinan Bridge: 1.Suleyman(Kanuni) (hd 1520-1566) on the Zigetvar expedition, the construction of this bridge has started 2. At the time of Selim 1566-1567 was completed in a year. Buyukcekmece Bridge is the architect’s work and is the Tuhfetul-Mimarinde Metropolitan Bridge that gives the list of its structures. The bridge, which provides transportation between Mukcekmece and Mimarsinan, (Now closed to traffic) was built on the passageway between Mukcekmece Lake and Marmara Sea, 36km away from Istanbul.