| Pre-History |
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Approximately 300,000 years ago, Istanbul gave her lands free for settlement in the Yarimburgaz cave beside Kucuk Cekmece Lake. Human beings of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods around the end of the last Ice Age lived within the cave near the lake. Excavations have uncovered tools belonging to the early Paleolithic period (100,000 years ago).
Human beings of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods around the end of the last Ice Age lived within the cave near the lake. Excavations have uncovered tools belonging to the early Paleolithic period (100,000 years ago). In excavations in the Agacli area to the north, were found tools from the middle and late Paleolithic periods. There was a significant cultural settlement around 5000 B.C. at Fikirtepe in the Kurbalideredere area which is close to Chalcedon. In the waters of Keras, as the sunshine turned into golden reflections on one of the hills, ruler of all seas god Poseidon and beauty of beauties Keroessa, became parents of a son. They named him Byzas. Byzas grew up and built Byzantion. And, the name of the bay Keras became the "Golden Horn" because of the golden reflections. |