In the past this city was known as ‘’Kiklobyon’’ since the Byzantine era.
It was the first destination for the Greek migrants who came from Costantinople’.
Later the Ottomans, the land they had taken has later become a Turkish land.
Since the 19th century the city of Zeytinburnu was an industrial city located in ‘’Kazilcesme’’.
The city was known by its gees fountain, the fountain still exists but the gees are not anymore.
Until the middle of the 19th century the habitants of this city from many different cultures such as Greeks, Arman, Bulgaria, Jews and Turks.
Until now an Armenian hospital is still existing and it is called ‘’Yedikule Surp Pirgic Armenian hospital’’ and it includes a museum inside its garden.
The city of Zeytinburnu affordable Properties has been changed since a lot of migrants settled there from Anatolia, since 1950.
Many constructions had been illegally established without the infrastructure and without enough caring.
But in 1960 new rules in the law had been established, the buildings in that city were constructed as rows without spaces among them.
One of the central regions of the
developments have been done in the roads and the streets of the city.