According to historical sources, Pendik settlement area since 5000 BC. Due to the geopolitical and geostrategic nature of the region between the Bosphorus and the river Sakarya, Pendik, which is in this region, was also captured by many different nations. In the 1200’s BC, there were Macedonians in this region. 8. It is known that in the century the Roman Empire, and later the Byzantines, seized sovereignty. During the Byzantine period, the place called Pantikion or Pentikion was the current Pendik mercury. The oldest known name is Pantikapion and Pantikapeum. Pendik was called Panticio, Pantecio, Panticia in Roman times. The name Pantecion (Pantiki), used in the Byzantine period, means “every side surrounded by walls.
Most sources note that the word Pendik means wall, and that the state or governments that dominate Istanbul use it as a line of defense to prevent attacks from the east. According to some sources, Pendik means “five noses. Those who come from the Ural mountains and settled in this region are said to have used the name “Pench-deh” in the sense of five villages in Persian. Pendik has an ancient history dating back to the prehistoric age. Pendik, which had cradled many civilizations long before the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods, is an ancient settlement and haunt. When the Phrygians settled in Anatolia and settled in the area between Istanbul Bogazi and the Sakarya river in the process of establishing the Phrygian State, the Bebriks, a branch of the Phrygians, called this region Bebrikya.
Bitins, which settled in this region in 650 BC and named it Bitinia, BC. They recognized the sovereignty of Persians who wanted to dominate Anatolia in the mid-6th century. Rome only stepped foot on Kolkhedon (Cadikoy) in Anatolia in 85 BC, and in 74 BC it took control of Bitinia, to which Pendik was also affiliated. During the Byzantine rule, General Belisarios lived in his villa built in Pendik. Pendik Got’s were also frequented by Nikomedia (Izmit) and Iranian campaigns to Kadikoy. Pendik’s meeting with the Muslim armies was in 668 when the armies under Sufyan advanced as far as Uskudar. After the Battle of Malazgirt of 1071, Alparslan’s cousin Kutlimoglu Suleiman Shah’s forces captured the area as far back as Skopje in 1079, and the Bosphorus became the border between Byzantium and the Turks.
However, when the Latin State was established in this region with the invasion of the Crusader Army in 1204, Pendik also received his share of destruction. In 1328, Pendik was transferred to Ottoman rule as a result of the acquisition of Samandira and Aydos fortresses during the Orhan Bey period. Although the Anatolian side of Istanubul was then under Byzantine rule several times, with the conquest of Istanbul by Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Pendik entered the rule of the Ottomans not to change hands again. Excavations at Pendik found a lonic-style column, numerous tombs, and the foundations of a Roman-era fort. Pendik was formerly a “tory” within the Ottoman administrative structure. The Kudar Mutasarriflik was a village settlement in the Isles Nahiye. During this period, it is known that the Greek, Armenian and Muslim elements lived together and that it was a cute settlement where more vegetable-fruit production, fishing and olive cultivation were engaged.