Name of  Torbalı , a district located on a  productive and rich land, is estimated to have derived from Metropolis, i.e. Tripoli, one of the 12 Ionian cities.

 Metropolis was founded during the time of Selevkos  in Torbalı, whose habitation goes back to the 3rd century B.C.      

 Excavations in the area had prooven that the city was one of the most important wine centers of Anatolia, prospered vitally in 2000 B.C. and that it gave home to the first city coins.

 Same as it used to be in the Early Hellenistic times,when Torbalı was a wealthy city, today fruit producing and olive are still important  sources of income.

 Metropolis, which had been siezed by the Hitits, afterwards came under Lydian, Persian, Macedonean, Selevkos and Pergamon sovereignity. Later, after Hun and Arabian  conquest,  in 1081 the city came under Turkish  sovereignity , till Byzantiums took the city under their rule in 1098.  Metropolis, after being under Ottoman sovereignity between 1327-1919, was held by the Greeks till 1922,  then taken by the Turks again.

 Most important places to see are:

 AKROPOL

BYZANTIUM CASTLE

THEATRE

EARLY ROMAN HOUSE

TAMPLE

 Besides, the altar stone, oil-lamps and solid statues found in theUyuz Dere Cave leads us to the fact that ,it used to be a temple cave.

 Today, especially owing to the prosper in car industry, the district is an industries zone.

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