The subdistrict covered the towns Erenköy and Kumkale and the villages Akçapınar, Akçeşme, Civler, Çıplak, Dümrek, Gökçalı, Güzelyalı, Halileli, Kalafat, Ovacık and Tevfikiye, and had a total population of 7,646 in 2011.

The village was built with small narrow streets, known as kalnterimi, covered with white stones, lined by two-floored houses with red tiled roofs.

The center of the village was the defined by the Saint Georgios maxalas (English: neighborhood), containing the main square and the market.

It became famous for housing the 1,000-patient Renkioi Hospital, agreed to be built by the British government under pressure from Florence Nightingale, and designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

But as a result of the loss by the Greek Army, the mainly Greek-diaspora residents were forced to evacuate the village, with inhabitants either moving to Asprovalta in Kavala, or Nikaia in the harbor of Piraeus.

The village location next to a significant road offered Turkish refugees from the Greek Islands a great chance to develop a new town.

In 1947, the settlement's name was changed to İntepe (name of a bastion during the Galipoli campaign) to disambiguate it from Erenköy, Kadıköy, a well known neighbourhood of Istanbul (on its Asiatic side).