Selimpaşa

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Greek. (February 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Greek article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Greek Wikipedia article at [[:el:Επιβάτες Θράκης]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|el|Επιβάτες Θράκης}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Neighbourhood in Silivri, Istanbul, Turkey

41°03′14″N 28°22′01″E / 41.054°N 28.367°E / 41.054; 28.367CountryTurkeyProvinceIstanbulDistrictSilivriPopulation

(2022)

23,378Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Selimpaşa, known in Byzantine times as Epibates (sometimes as Epivates or Epibatos; Greek: Επιβάτες), is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silivri, Istanbul Province, in the European part of Turkey.^[1] Its population is 23,378 (2022).^[2] It was an independent municipality until it was merged into the municipality of Silivri in 2008.^[3]

The town is located on the northwestern coast of the Marmara Sea, 50 km (31 mi) west of Istanbul and 13 km (8.1 mi) east from Silivri on the highway D.100. Selimpaşa today is a summer resort with long sandy beaches.

The town is the native place of the 10th-century Orthodox saint St Paraskevi the New and was populated mostly by Greeks until the population exchange in the 1920s.^[4]

References

^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ Kanun No. 5747, Resmî Gazete, 22 March 2008.
^ "Saint Petca Parasceva". Patron Saints Index. 2010. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved March 31, 2010.