Yolçatı, formerly Gelevri or Galivri, deriving from its Greek name Kalavrye or Kalabrye (), is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Silivri Silivri, formerly Selymbria (Greek language, Greek: Σηλυμβρία), is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 217,163 (2022). It lies along the Sea of Marmara, outsi ...

Istanbul Province Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. Its population is 398 (2022).

History

The settlement exists since

Late Antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...

, and was until recently known by its Greek name ''Kalavrye'' or ''Kalabrye'' (Καλαβρύη), also ''Galavrye''/''Galabrye'' (Γαλαβρύη), ''Kalabria'' (Καλαβρία), ''Kalovrye''/''Kalobrye'' (Καλοβρύη), and ''Kalavre'' (Καλαυρή). In the early 4th century it may have been the seat of a bishop, who by the end of the century moved to neighbouring

Selymbria Selymbria (),Demosthenes, '' de Rhod. lib.'', p. 198, ed. Reiske. or Selybria (Σηλυβρία), or Selybrie (Σηλυβρίη), was a town of ancient Thrace on the Propontis, 22 Roman miles east from Perinthus, and 44 Roman miles west from Cons ...

. The inhabitants of the town were involved in the

Nika riots The Nika riots (), Nika revolt or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in 532 AD. They are often regarded as the most violent riots in the city's history, with nearly half of ...

of 532 against Emperor

Justinian I Justinian I (, ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 527 to 565. His reign was marked by the ambitious but only partly realized ''renovatio imperii'', or "restoration of the Empire". This ambition was ...

. The locality is next mentioned in 1078, as the site of the Battle of Kalavrye, where the forces of Emperor

Nikephoros III Botaneiates Nikephoros III Botaneiates (; 1002–1081), Romanization of Greek, Latinized as Nicephorus III Botaniates, was Byzantine Empire, Byzantine List of Byzantine Emperors, Emperor from 7 January 1078 to 1 April 1081. He became a general du ...

, led by Alexios Komnenos, defeated the army of the rebel general Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder. It is next mentioned by the Arab geographer

al-Idrisi Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti, or simply al-Idrisi (; ; 1100–1165), was an Arab Muslim geographer and cartographer who served in the court of King Roger II at Palermo, Sicily. Muhammad al-Idrisi was born in C ...

as ''Geliwrî''; al-Idrisi records it simply as a locality close to Selymbria. The village was home to a Greek community (numbering 212 in 1922) until the Greco-Turkish population exchange. It was the site of a Church of the Transfiguration and of a namesake hagiasma, but both have since vanished.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yolcati, Silivri Neighbourhoods of Silivri Former Greek towns in Turkey