[6] Every year the town holds the Stork Festival and until the 20th century, Greeks and Manavs lived together.

[7] Gölyazı is a settlement built on the ancient Greek city called Apollonia Ad Rhyndacum.

The necropolis ruins of this city are on the hill called Zambak Tepe, close to the land.

Possibly founded as a colony by Miletus, the antiquity of the city is supported by coins from as early as 450 BCE, which bear the anchor symbol of Apollo and which have been attributed by some scholars to this Apollonia.

The Roman Emperor Hadrian visited the city and in the Byzantine period, it belonged to the Diocese of Bithinya, then Nicomedia.