Adapazari

Adapazari is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of Sakarya Province. The territory itself was initially named Adapazari also. Adapazari is a piece of the thickly populated locale of the nation known as the Marmara Region. In 2014, the city had a populace of 462,087. The historical backdrop of Adapazarı goes back to 378 BC, when it was called Agrilion. Old pilgrims included Phrygians, Bithynians, Cimmerians, Lydians, Greeks, and Persians, yet Adapazarı got its personality from the old Hellenistic, Romans, and Greek Byzantine rulers.

A standout amongst the most imperative stays of chronicled centrality is the Justinianus Bridge worked by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in 533 CE. Verifiably, it was arranged on the old military street from Constantinople toward the east, associated in Late Antiquity by the essential Sangarius Bridge and, since the finish of the 19th century, by a branch line with the Anatolian railroad. In 1868, the Adapazarı Municipality was formally established on the town called Der Seadet.

A sugar manufacturing plant and agrarian sugar production line pulled in numerous vagrants and quickened the industrialization of the city. A law passed on 17 June 1954 in the Grand National Assembly observed the city isolated from Kocaeli Province and made the focal point of its own region. The 1999 Marmara quake influenced Adapazari and perpetrated misfortunes in lives and harm. In the 2000 authority enumeration, the populace was recorded as 158,474. By authority proclaim, the territory was renamed Sakarya after the Sakarya River which goes through it.