Florya

Florya is a part of Bakırköy district of the greater Istanbul, Turkey. It is located along Marmara Sea, and borders to the northeast the neighbourhood of Yeşilköy, to the northwest that of Küçükçekmece. It is one of the high class and rich areas of Istanbul.

Atatürk, the founder and the first president of Turkey, used to spend his free time in his Florya Palace by swimming and enjoying the beautiful sandy beach.

 

Name

Florya's name, according to the Byzantine scholar Michael Psellos, who found it cited in an imperial Chrysobull, comes from the Greek word "Phlorion". It derives possibly by a certain Florus, who lived in this neighborhood during the early Byzantine age.