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Yalova is a city located in northwestern Turkey, near the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Yalova has a city population of 100,863, while the population of Yalova Province is 118,998 as of 2011. Currently, there is a controversy around the municipal election results in Yalova especially after the Supreme Election Board invalidated the 2014 Municipal Election results on April 24, 2014, after a few recounts that changed results.
In general, it is assumed that the name Yalova comes from Yalıova. Yalı means ‘house at the coast’ and ova means ‘plain’ in Turkish.
The first settlement in the region dates back to the Prehistoric Period, in around 3000 BC. The Hittites ruled the region in the 21st century BC, followed by the Phrygians in the 13th century BC, and thereafter by the Greeks in the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic eras. The region was conquered by the Romans in 74 BC. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the city was part of the Byzantine Empire.
In Antiquity and for most of the Middle Ages, the town was known as Pylae or Pylai (Greek: Πύλαι), in Bithynia, which is Greek for “gates”, as it was at the start of one of the main routes leading into Asia for whoever crossed the Sea of Marmara from Europe. Wikipedia
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An image from Yalova, Yalova Merkez/Yalova, Turkey
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