Figen Sakallıoğlu Anadolu Lisesi, Turkey

Figen Sakallıoğlu Anadolu Lisesi is a public school that gives general secondary education. It started teaching in 1994. We teach to 550 students who are accepted to school after passing an examination.

In our syllabuses there are science classes. Students learn Biology, Maths, Chemistry, Physics. They also have Art, English, Literature, Philosophy and PE classes.

Our policy is not only to prepare students for university exams but also to help them improve their artistic, cultural and social skills. After four-year education they graduate and sit for university exams.

Our school is also interested in all kinds of projects, competitions and sport activities. We took part in one Comenius Project called Art Connecting Us between 2012-2014.

Website - Figen Sakallioglu High School, SAKARYA (Turkey)

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Adapazarı in the north food of Samanlı and KeremaliMountains is in the middle of a vast meado watered by the River of Sakarya from the centuries. It is a late period of Ottoman city. Adapazarı is next to Historical Silkroad and Ottomans Bagdat Road, and also in the crossroads of İstanbul and Anatolia.

From the excavations and historical knowledge we understand that the region was under the sovereignty of Bitinya whose capital was Nikomedya (İzmit), between B.C. 300 and A.D. 395; the river in the middle of the region had the name of Quin Sangarius. Findings from Kandıra, Kaynarca, Kaymas, Hendek, Karapürçek and Taraklıshow that Bitinyas lived in the region between before and after the B.C. From the castels in Sayfiler, Harmantepe, Tersiye, Paşalar, Çobankale, and Mekece and the famous bridge which was built by II. Justinyanus in 562 we learn that Adapazarı region was the intersection point of the civilizations during the history.

After Bitinyas,in A.D. 395 Est Rome Empire ruled in the region and a village was formed in the district we call Tığcılar today.Adapazarı was conquered by Ottomans in 1326. İf we inspect the district names around Adapazarı, for example. Erenler, Özbek, Şeyhler, Dedeler, Dodurga we understand that it was effected by the Muslim Turks in a short time.Some of the Ottoman monuments such as Elvan Bey İmarethanesi (1450) in Geyve, Şeyh Muslihittin Mosque (1481) İn Kaynarca, II. Beyazıd Bridge (1495) in Geyve and Yunus Paşa Mosque(1517) in Taraklı are still the unwipped foodprints of Ottoman Empire.

Tığcılar village, which was canqured by Ottomans in 1326, become an attractive settlement and got the name Adakarya (Ada Village). Later, Semerciler, Çıracılar, Pabuçcular, joined to the village and had the name Adapazarı, it was a village in 1563, region in 1746, town in 1837, municipality 1868.

Today Sakarya is an industrial city and home to many big factories. It is also a university city. Sakarya University is one of the biggest universities in the country with 70,000 students.

Nature tourism is developing in the area since it's home to many lakes, green areas and forests.

Adapazarı gets a lot of migrations from many different regions especially from Balkans and Caucasus. It is one of the fast developping, peacefull, calm, Anatolian city in route of İstanbul and Ankara.