Ye¿ilköy, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yeilköy (prior to 1926 known as San Stefano or Santo Stefano from the Greek: pronounced Ayos Stefanos, rendered in Turkish as Ayastefanos, Bulgarian: ) is a part of the Bakrköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located along the Marmara Sea about 11 kilometers west of Istanbul's historic city centre. Before the rapid increase of Istanbul's population in the 1970s, Yeilköy was merely a village and a sea resort. Its original name ( , pronounced Aghios Stephanos, Greek for Saint Stephen) derives from a legend: in Byzantine times, the ship carrying the bones of the saint from Constantinople to Rome was forced to stop here because of a storm. The bones were taken to a church until the sea calmed down, and this gave the name to the church and to the place.