The first settlement in the region dates back to the Prehistoric Period, in around 3000 BC. The HittitesThe Hittites were an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC.... ruled the region in the 2000s BC, followed by the Phrygians in the 1200s BC. The region was conquered by the Romans

Ancient RomeAncient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city-state of Rome, founded in the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BCE.... in 74 BC. Following the division of the Roman EmpireThe Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Rome civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government.... in 395, the region of Yalova remained under the sovereignty of the Byzantine EmpireByzantine Empire is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople..... In 1302, Yalova was incorporated into the territory of the Ottoman EmpireThe Ottoman Empire , is also sometimes known in the Western world as the Turkish Empire.....Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, and Father of the Nation Turkey as well as its first President.... occasionally lived in Yalova in his final years. In one of his speeches he famously said "Yalova is my city."Yalova is a city located in northwestern TurkeyTurkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Southwest Asia Asia and the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe Europe...., on the eastern coast of the Sea of MarmaraThe Sea of Marmara , also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating the Asian part of Turkey from its European part...., and is the capital of the Yalova ProvinceYalova is a Provinces of Turkey in northwestern Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Bursa Province to the south, and Kocaeli Province to the west..... Yalova has a city population of 90.000, while the population of the Yalova Province is 188,440.
Yalova has a number of tourist attractions, such as the kösk (Ottoman-Turkish style mansion) used by Atatürk during his visits to the city, and of course, its famous hot springs in Termal is a district of Yalova Province, Turkey...., which gets its name from the Latin word thThermaeThe term thermae was the word the Ancient Rome used for the buildings housing their public baths.....