Adapazari

Adapazari is a trading town in north-west Turkey, on the fertile plain of the lower Sakarya river. Its name, Ada, means "island", after the two arms of the river that once enclosed it.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.), signed R. Anhegger, says that the town lay between two arms of the Sakarya, and that it stood in the plain known as Akowa, in the province of Kodja-eli (Kocaeli). It was occupied by the Turks under Orkhan and first mentioned in a waqf founded by him. In 1795 it appeared under its modern name as the seat of a naib. It was raised to the rank of a town in 1852–3, had about 24,500 inhabitants around 1890, and 36,210 at the 1950 census. It is a trading centre for tobacco, vegetables and fruit, and has no Islamic monuments of importance. ¹