Sancaktepe is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 63 km2, and its population is 489,848 (2022).
In 2008 the district Sancaktepe was created from parts of the districts Kartal and Ümraniye. The urban part of the new district was established as a municipality. At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.
Composition
There are 19 neighbourhoods in Sancaktepe District:
Abdurrahmangazi
Akpınar
Atatürk
Emek
Eyüp Sultan
Fatih
Hilal
İnönü
Kemal Türkler
Meclis
Merve
Mevlana
Osmangazi
Paşaköy
Safa
Sarıgazi
Veysel Karani
Yenidoğan
Yunus Emre
History
Sancaktepe's oldest historic structure is Damatris Summer Palace that was built by I. Tiberius Konstantinos (578–582) and Mavrikos (582–602) in Byzantine Age. Turks started to come to Sancaktepe in the 7th century but they could not be permanent up to the Ottoman. Ottoman Empire conquered this area completely in 1328.