Sultanbeyli is a working class suburb of Istanbul

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n side, inland from Kartal

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History

Until recently Sultanbeyli was farmland. During 1940s and 1950s large land holdings of the Ottoman period were parcelized for the settlement fot the settlement Turkishs migrants from Bulgaria. A village was built in the 1950s on one of the main highways connecting Istanbul to hinterland.

See also

• the local municipality website
• Sultanbeyli
• Sultanbeyli Sultanbeyli Web Sitesi