    kartal is a district of istanbul, turkey, located on the asian side of the city, on the coast of the marmara sea between maltepe and pendik. despite being far from the city centre, kartal is heavily populated (total population of 541,209) (2008 census). the total land area is 147,000 mÂ² which includes some countryside areas inland. her neighbours are maltepe the west, sultanbeyli and sancaktepe the north and pendik the east. it was the neighbour of gebze (1923â1987), Åile (1923â1987), beykoz (1928â1987), ÃskÃ¼dar (1923â1987), Ãmraniye (1987â2009) and kadÄ±kÃ¶y (1928â1992 and 2004â2009). it was a neighbour again with kadÄ±kÃ¶y from the northwest due to ferhatpaÅa quarter passed from maltepe to samandÄ±ra in 2004. however, this neighbourhood was ended with ataÅehir's separation from kadÄ±kÃ¶y and samandÄ±ra's separation (joined to sancaktepe) from kartal in 2009. ==history== the center of kartal (meaning 'eagle' in turkish) was a fishing village on the marmara shore during the byzantine empire called kartalimen or kartalimin in greek, and was found
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