Subaşı, Yalova


Subaşı is a belde in Altınova district of Yalova Province, Turkey. Situated at it is close to Hersek Headland of Marmara Sea and has almost merged to Altınova to the east. The distance to Yalova is . The population of Subaşı is 5459 as of 2010. The name of the village refers to subaşı, a title in the Ottoman bureaucracy and the residents of the town are mostly Turkish migrants who were expelled from Bulgaria in 1935. The settlement was declared a seat of township in 1992. But it suffered severely in the 7.6 magnitude 1999 İzmit earthquake.