Pendik is a district of

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on the

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n side between

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and

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, on the Marmara Sea. Home to Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. Population is 711,894. It also neighbours

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, Sancaktepe and

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from northwest,

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from north and

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from northeast.

History

There are records of settlements in Pendik going back to 5,000 years ago, a Greek settlement in 753 BC, and many more conquests. In 1080, the town was taken over by the

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s, and recaptured by the Byzantines in 1086 and so on. During the Byzantine era, the place was called Pantikion or Pentikion, and before that Pantikap on in

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(as the town had five walls, or five gates, or both). Pendik was always a retreat from the city, and by the 20th century was peppered with holiday and weekend homes of Istanbul's wealthy. It was part of Kartal district till 1987. Tuzla one separated from it in 1992. Pendik had present borders with return boroughs of Güzelyalı and Esenyalı (now divided between Güzelyalı, Orhangazi, Esenyalı, Fatih and Ahmet Yesevi ones) from Tuzla in 1994.

Pendik today

Until the 1970s Pendik was a rural area, far from the city. Today Pendik is a crowded mix of working class housing (especially further towards the E5 motorway) with more expensive apartments with sea views along the coast. There is a busy shopping district (with a large street market on Saturdays), restaurants and movie theaters. Pendik is far from downtown Istanbul. It is served by Marmaray suburban trains. Since 25 July 2014, high-speed services to Ankara start from this station, pending termination of the upgrades on the line to Istanbul proper. In 2016, an extension of the M4 line of the

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was completed. The Pendik metro station is located about north of the railway station. The coastal road is fast but does not carry public transport, except for the bus 16A which only runs until 8pm and the Kadikoy-Bostanci-Pendik dolmus. There is road construction going on in the Pendik/Tuzla/Gebze region, which has seen industrial development in the 1990s. Over the centuries,

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have migrated to Turkey, with a large number arriving after the

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. Many settled in the Pendik boroughs of Sapanbağları, Yeşilbağlar and Bahçelievler. Apart from naming their streets and shops after their village in

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, these people have blended into the

working-class lifestyle of the rest of Pendik. In the late 1990s two private educational institutions were built inland from Pendik,

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and Sabancı University. The area has a

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racetrack. There is a high-speed boat across the Marmara Sea to

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for people travelling out of the city to

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and the Aegean. Sabiha Gökçen airport is near. And currently mayor is Ahmet Cin from

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Climate

Pendik experiences a borderline

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(''Csa/Cs'') and a humid subtropical climate (''Cfa/Cf'') according to both Köppen and Trewartha climate classifications, with cool winters and warm to hot summers. A warm district, it is in USDA hardiness zone 9a and

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heat zone 4, allowing the cultivation of certain cold-hardy subtropical plants. While in southern Istanbul, it is still affected by Foehn winds, because of its position north of the highlands in

Twin cities

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References

External links

Pendik Municipality website

Pendik High School website

Pendik Guide

Pendik News
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