Arifiye

Arifiye is a municipality and district of Sakarya Province in Turkey. It occupies the southernmost part of the urban agglomeration of Adapazari and the countryside beside it, just east of Lake Sapanca, and is almost merged with Adapazari, the provincial centre, as part of Greater Sakarya. The Turkish motorway O-4 and the state highway D.100, both linking Istanbul with Ankara, pass through it, and it is an important railway junction served by high-speed trains between the two cities. The area belongs to the ancient region of Bithynia and passed from Rome to Byzantium before the Ottomans annexed it in 1326. It was declared a seat of township by 1956 and became a separate district in 2008. After the 1970s it grew into a centre of automotive supply industry, and a Toyota plant here builds the C-HR.