[3] In 1203, the beach of Agios Stefanos had been the site of disembarkation of the Latin army of the Fourth Crusade, which would conquer Constantinople the following year.

[3] In 1909, the decision to send Sultan Abdülhamid II into exile to Thessaloniki was taken by the members of the Committee of Union and Progress at the yacht club of San Stefano.

In 1912, during the Balkan Wars, thousands of soldiers suffering from cholera were brought here, and about 3,000 of them died and were buried near the train station.

[3] Shortly after the Ottomans' entry into the First World War as Germany's ally, on 14 November 1914, a monument erected here in 1898 to commemorate the Russian soldiers who died in 1878, was blown up by the Ottoman military as a propaganda event;[5] the demolition is thought to have been filmed by the first Turkish filmmaker Fuat Uzkınay and thus is officially deemed to be the birth of Turkish cinema.

[6] Beginning in the late 1800s, San Stefano was a favourite coastal resort and hunting place for Constantinople's upper classes.

Beginning in the late 1800s, San Stefano was a favourite coastal resort and hunting place for Constantinople's upper classes.

It had a mixed population, composed of Turks, Greeks (now almost completely gone), Armenians and Levantines (Italian and French people, now mostly gone).

[3] The Kurds and the Assyrians, faithful of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who have emigrated to Istanbul since the second half of the 20th century from eastern and southeastern Turkey, are relatively more recent newcomers.

[11] Several previously bought sheep are sacrificed in the church garden and the meat is distributed to the poor and needy.

The crew, bound for Rome and forced to land due to a storm, kept the relics for 10-12 days under a tent erected at the future church, and during this time the villagers fed the sailors by slaughtering sheep from their flocks.

[11] Yeşilköy retains some remarkable examples of Art Nouveau wooden houses, built in the late 19th and early 20th century.

[12] Edouard Crespin's father, one of Yeşilköy's best-known personalities, came to Bursa as Consul representing the King of France during the reign of Mahmud II.

[12] Among the historical buildings in Yeşilköy are three townhouses built in 1900 on Istasyon Caddesi by Guglielmo Semprini, a famous Levantine architect of Italian origin, who designed many works in Istanbul, and is best known for the Grand Hotel de Londres in Tepebaşı [tr], Taksim.

[13] The church, located on Inci Ciceǧi Sokak, was built in 1844 under the leadership of Bogos Bey, a member of the Dadyan family, and still serves Yeşilköy's large Armenian community today.

[15] The lower floor of the building in which the restaurant is located, directly opposite the church, was used by the financial affairs office of the Russian army during the 1877 war.

The first station, servicing the suburban railway line (Banliyö Treni) to Sirkeci, was built in 1871, and contributed to the neighbourhood's boom as a popular resort.