The city, which is known as Selymbria or Selybria in ancient times, has maintained its importance in every period because it has a natural port and is located on important trade routes. The city of Silivri was built on a steep and steep hill of 56 meters, which dominates the Marmara in the east of the bay next to the present town. Over time, this hill was surrounded by walls. Today, this place is called Fatih Neighborhood. Over time, the city grew out of the walls and spread. Silivri is located on the shores of the Marmara Sea (Propontis coast between Istanbul Byzantiun) and Marmara Ereglis (Perintos). In ancient times, Thrace was surrounded by the Black Sea to the east, the Marmara Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west, the Nestos river to the north, and the Danube River to the north. The city of Selybria, which constitutes our location, is also located within these borders. Both the cultural finds shown by the Thrace region and the similarities of the Kunali Bridge Prehistoric caramics prove a cultural exchange in Anatolia and Troia 1 and prove the existence of settlements that have descended until 3000 BC. With the establishment of Kostantinopolis, Selymbria entered the road network and the site of the imperial capital, which was only 60 km away. After that, Selybria continued to exist until it was taken by the Turks by o6 being a Byzantine city.
Justin after Anastasius and then 1. Justinian (527-565) took over. During the time of Justinian there were significant advances in trade and art. Kontantianapolis was an important trade center between Asia and Europe. The weight in this trade was in the shopping to China and India. Byzantine trade spies learn silkism from China and bring the silk beetle to Byzantium 1. Justinian comes across his time. In Byzantium, silk production suddenly gained value. At that time, silkism was given so much importance; by the order of the Emperor, Silivri and his region were planted with plenty of mulberry trees, causing silkism to enter Silivri. In the 10th century, Silivri was a very rich trading center. He owed his abundance and nominations to trade. Silk, winemaking and agriculture were very advanced and their products were exported from here to everywhere. In 1344, Ioannes Kantakouzenus supported him by giving his daughter Theodora to Sultan Orhan. Theodora’s wedding was held in Silivri. From this marriage, a martyr called Khali came into the world. In response to this marriage, Sultan Orhan sent a force of 6,000 to Kantakouzenus to fight in Thrace. Kantakouzenus saw the great help of the Ottomans in his battle against the Serbs after he seized the throne .After this war, most Turks settled in Thrace. Sultan Orhan ensured that Turkish tribes settled in the lands that were captured in Thrace. The Turks who fled the armies of Timur, who invaded Anatolia in 1402, came to Thrace and settled in Sultan Murat. In this period, the Turks in Thrace were more than the Anatolian Turks.
These days, the origin of the indigenous Turks in Thrace are those who came with these migrations. Many of them came to the places they lived in Thrace this day after a time settled in the Balkans and stayed there. Today the descendants of these first arrivals are called “GACAL. Those who come and settle from other regions of the Balkans are also called “ORUK. These Gacal and the Yorks have not lost their old customs and grandmothers to this day. When Fatih Sultan Mehmet decided to take Istanbul, he recruited Uncle Karacabey, the Romanian Military Governor, to capture Byzantine cities and towns along the way. Mesembria(Misivri),Anchialus(Aholu) and Byzus(Visa), on the Black Sea coast, were immediately disposed of by surrendering. The fortresses of Selymbria and Perinthos resisted, and Uncle Karacabey moved forward in the direction of Istanbul, leaving the area to be held after Istanbul. Fifteen days after the siege of Istanbul, Uncle Karaca Bey returned to Thrace to retrieve the unconquered fortresses. Seeing that there was nothing left for Byzantium, the Selymbria castle guards realized that there was nothing left to do and handed over the key of the castle to Uncle Karacabey. Fatih Sultan Mehmet departed from Edirne in the direction of Istanbul on 23 March 1453.5 April Thursday, Constantinople arrived in front of him. Before the main force left the road, the unit tasked with providing supplies to the military on the way was continuing their way by taking the cost of value from the place they passed and taking live animals and priests. When it came to Epivatos/Bigados(Selimpasa), shepherds around Araptepe avoided giving animals.
At the same time, they attacked this force. The people who were not involved in the attack here were also exiled from here by the order of Fatih.On the attack of the conqueror to Byzantium, the Hungarian King Hunyadi wanted Selimbria and the island of Limnos in return for his help to the Byzantine Emperor. Fatih took Istanbul. This desire was also not fulfilled. When Silivri passed to the Ottoman administration, the Apokaukos Church in the castle was turned into a mosque and placed in a Turkish castle for up to 30-40 households. At that time, there was no house outside the castle in Silivri. All the houses were in the castle. The castle was inhabited by Greeks, Armenians and Jews. As for the Turks, there was no change in the customs, practices and worship of the ancient people. This contestation caused good luck. Because the Turks were not used to sitting in closed areas, they started to build and settle in houses outside the castle. At the time when the Turks came to Silivri and settled, there were well-kept vineyards and gardens in the eastern part of the castle in the position of Muratcesme. The non-Muslim people provided their livelihoods with viticulture, winemaking, and silkism. The Turks improved in the field of fishing and yoghurt making. Silivri was the site of the Byzantine Emperors. After it fell into the hands of the Turks, it continued for a long time in the same way. Kanuni Sultan Suleyman bought the Yapagci Farm. He built a mosque and a palace there. In the summer, the palace people spent the summer here. Even as a summer law returned to Istanbul, the galleon was caught in the storm and sank off the Gulf of Silivri, and the umbrella and diamond umbrella knob in the law chest behind the galleon is buried in the waters and this chest is still It is known that it lies off the coast of Silivri. Jalaliye bought his farm, Piri Mehmet Pasha, and after his retirement he spent some of his days in Silivri.
Sultan Avci Mehmet also built a hunting lodge in Yapagca Village and stayed here. The defeat of the letter “93” finally heralded the subsequent defeats.On October 8, 1912, the Balkan Wars began.The Bulgarians in the Balkans, the Greeks, the,Serbs and Montenegrins reached an agreement between them, taking advantage of the Ottoman occupation of Tripoli and the internal political conflicts in the country, and on 8 October 1912, the Montenegrins declared war on the Ottomans. After this, other Balkan states also went into war. The Ottoman armies suffered a great defeat. Peace was signed on May 30, 1913. On the night of June 30, 1913, when Bulgaria suddenly attacked Greece and Serbia, the second Balkan War began. This worked for the Ottomans. Thrace back to Edirne from the hands of the Bulgarians.In 1912 Silivri was occupied by the Bulgarians. Bulgarians have historically been in the form of rare massacres, rapes, tortures and ravages. The invasion of Silivri by the Bulgarians lasted 9 months. The occupation ended in July 1913. In the following years, Silivri was also occupied by the Greeks.The Greeks entered Silivri on 20 July 1920, withdrawing Silivri on 22 October 1922, leaving Silivri to the Italians. As a result, on November 1, 1922, they withdrew from the Italians and surrendered Silivri to the Turks. In the following years, exchange(change) began. At the end of the war, when the sulh table was seated, the Turks who stayed in Greece and the future of the Greeks who stayed in Turkey were taken under a decision. Under the agreement, these were changed and the exchange was completed in 1924. Silivri was an accident due to the Visa Livas in the first years of the accident.In 1846 Silivri Liva was.
Silivri was involved in 1867, and in 1876 it became a Fork to star, a County of Silivri Fork, and in 1898 it remained an accident of Istanbul in Silivri when Forkca was involved in Istanbul. At this time there was also a Municipality of Silivri Known as the oldest Mayor Yanakaki SORBACI. Although it is not known who made the first walls of Silivri 6.He was repaired by Emperor Justinian in the Y. Y., and finally 2.It was repaired by the same sultan after the great earthquake called “Doomsday_i Sugra” (small apocalypse) during the Bayezit period (1481-1512). Walls from the old historical monuments of Silivri, Doors(bazaar door, middle door, country gate), inscriptions, brick stamps, cistern,Pirimehmetpasa Mosque. According to the 2000 census of our district, it has a population of 108,155 and 44,530 of this population lives in the district center, 63,625 in Belde and in our villages.Silivri district is the city because of the country’s holiday destinations in the tourist season % It is increasing by 400-500 and is constantly migrating. The county’s livelihoods are based on agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, tourism and the arts. There are all public institutions and organizations in the district and there are not many problems in health and education.In the official institutions and organizations in the district, maximum importance is given to the provision of services within the understanding of citizen-oriented service.