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Üsküdar
Üsküdar () is a large and densely populated district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered to the north by Beykoz, to the east by Ümraniye, to the southeast by Ataşehir and to the south by Kadıköy; with Karaköy, Kabataş, Beşiktaş, and the historic city center of Fatih facing it on the opposite shore to the west. Üsküdar has been a conservative cultural center of the Anatolian/Asian side of Istanbul since Ottoman times with its numerous grand and little historic mosques and dergahs. It is home to about half a million people. Üsküdar is a major transport hub, with ferries to Eminönü, Karaköy, Kabataş, Besiktaş and some of the Bosphorus suburbs. Üsküdar is a stop on the Marmaray rail service at the point where it starts its journey under the Bosphorus, re-emerging on the European side at Sirkeci. Via Marmaray, Üsküdar is linked to Gebze on the Asian side of the city and Halkali on the European side. Üsküda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ä°cadiye
İcadiye is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar municipality on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey. It is centered on İcadiye Hill and is bordered on the north by Kuzguncuk, on the east by Altunizade, on the south by Selami Ali, and on the west by Sultantepe. It is mostly a residential neighborhood, with a few historic houses and buildings. The name of the neighborhood is related to the word for invention ( tr, icat). It received this name because new types of printing presses invented by Sarkis Kalfa of Kayseri were manufactured in shops there. Several water sources on İcadiye Hill were connected to the historic center of Üsküdar during the Ottoman era. The Mihrimah Sultan Water Line was built in 1547 to bring water to the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque. The Arslan Agha Water Line was built in 1646 to bring water to fountains in Sultantepe and to the Abdi Efendi and Mihrimah Sultan Mosques. The neighborhood has a historic bathhouse, the İcadiye Dağ Hamamı, built in 1854 by Shei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuzguncuk
Kuzguncuk is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar district on the Asian side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey. The neighborhood is centered on a valley opening to the Bosphorus and is somewhat isolated from the main part of the city, being surrounded by nature preserves, cemeteries, and a military installation. It is a quiet neighborhood with streets lined with antique Ottoman wooden houses. Kuzguncuk is bordered on the north by Beylerbeyi, on the east by Burhaniye, on the south by İcadiye and Sultantepe, and on the west by the Bosphorus. On the other side of the Bosphorus is Beşiktaş. The Otoyol 1 highway separates the neighborhood from Burhaniye. History The word ''kuzguncuk'' means "little raven" or "barred window of a prison door" in Turkish. The name is said to have come from a holy person named Kuzgun Baba, who lived in the area during the time of Sultan Mehmet II or from the corruption of a previous name, Kozinitza. During Byzantine times, this area may hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beylerbeyi
Beylerbeyi is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar municipality of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, to the north of the Bosphorus Bridge. It is bordered on the northeast by the neighborhood of Çengelköy, on the east by Kirazlıtepe, on the southeast by Küplüce, on the south by Burhaniye, on the southwest by Kuzguncuk, and on the northwest by the Bosporus. Directly across the Bosporus is the Ortaköy neighborhood of Istanbul's Beşiktaş municipality. The main landmark of the neighborhood is the Ottoman Beylerbeyi Palace. Near the palace are various pavilions or kiosks ( köşkler), including the two small seaside pavilions (Yalı Köşkleri), imperial stables (Ahır Köşkü), a "sunken" pavilion (Serdab Köşkü or Mermer Köşk), and a yellow pavilion (Sarı Köşk). Another highly visible site within the neighborhood is the toll plaza on the Otoyol 1 highway for the Bosphorus Bridge. Some of the wealthiest people in Turkey own homes in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acıbadem, Üsküdar
Acıbadem is a neighbourhood of Üsküdar district, Istanbul. Acıbadem is bordered on the east by Ünalan, on the west by Altunizade, on the north by Küçükçamlıca, and on the south by Hasanpaşa (a neighbourhood of Kadıköy Kadıköy (), known in classical antiquity and during the Roman and Byzantine eras as Chalcedon ( gr, Χαλκηδών), is a large, populous, and cosmopolitan district in the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, on the northern shore of the Sea of ... district). References Neighbourhoods of Üsküdar {{Istanbul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgurlu, Üsküdar
Bulgurlu is one of the 33 neighborhoods in the Üsküdar district located on the Asian side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey. Bulgurlu is one of the most populated neighborhoods of Üsküdar, and it is bordered by Küçükçamlıca Street to the west, Üçpınarlar Street to the south and the O-4 Anatolian Highway, to the east by Namık Kemal Neighborhood and to the north by Bulgurlu street. ''Küçük Çamlıca Hill'', one of the most important recreation areas of Istanbul, is also in this neighborhood. The historical Bulgurlu Bath was established in the 17th century and still serves. History The name of Bulgurlu, which is also mentioned as Burkullu, Burgulu, Burkurlu and Burgurlu in the sources, the claim that its name came from Bulgarian immigrants who settled in the region after April uprising of 1876 was not widely accepted. The name of the district, which was engaged in farming in the 16th century, must have derived from bulgur. On the other hand, historians such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altunizade
Altunizade is a neighborhood of the municipality of Üsküdar in Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on the Asian side of the city. The location takes its name from Altunizade İsmail Zühtü Pasha (1806–1887), a wealthy civil servant in the Ottoman Empire, who established the settlement in an utmost area on the Anatolian part of Istanbul in the 19th century. "Altunizade" means gold trader in the Ottoman Turkish language. Education Following universities maintain campuses in Altunizade: Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, Istanbul Şehir University, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, and Üsküdar University. Places of interest Places of interest in the neighborhood are Altunizade Mosque, Capitol Shopping Center and Altunizade Acıbadem hastanesi Transport The motorway runs just northeast of the neighborhood connecting the Bosphorus Bridge with Kadıköy Kadıköy (), known in classical antiquity and during the Roman and Byzantine eras as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiden's Tower
__NOTOC__ The Maiden's Tower ( tr, Kız Kulesi), also known as Leander's Tower (''Tower of Leandros'') since the medieval Byzantine period, is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait, from the coast of Üsküdar in Istanbul, Turkey. The tower appeared on the reverse of the Turkish 10 lira banknote from 1966 to 1981. History After the naval victory at Cyzicus, in 408 BC the Athenian general Alcibiades probably built a custom station for ships coming from the Black Sea on a small rock in front of Chrysopolis (today's Üsküdar).Müller-Wiener (1976), p. 334 In 1110 Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus built a wooden tower protected by a stone wall. From the tower an iron chain stretched across to another tower erected on the European shore, at the quarter of Mangana in Constantinople. The islet was then connected to the Asiatic shore through a defense wall, whose underwater remains are still visible. During the Ottoman conquest of Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çamlıca, Üsküdar
Çamlıca is a leafy district of Üsküdar on the Asian side of Istanbul. It is famous for two hills - Big Çamlıca (''Büyük Çamlıca'' in Turkish, 268m) and Little Çamlıca (''Küçük Çamlıca'' in Turkish, 229m) - offering panoramic views across the Sea of Marmara and the Princes' Islands to the European side of Istanbul and Sarayburnu. Historically, these were renowned beauty spots although by the end of the 20th century modern development had detracted from that beauty, not least when a series of radio and television towers were built on the hills. Among the artists to leave drawings of the panoramic view from Büyük Çamlıca in its 19th-century heyday was the Usküdar-born artist Hoca Ali Rıza. Çamlıca can be reached on the M5 Metro line from Üsküdar at Kısıklı and Bulgurlu stations. Attractions Büyük Çamlıca Mosque In 2019 Turkey's largest mosque, the Great Çamlıca Mosque (''Büyük Çamlıca Cami'' in Turkish) opened on Big Çamlıca Hilll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çengelköy
Çengelköy is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar district on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey, between the neighborhoods of Beylerbeyi and Kuleli. It is mainly a residential district. Many mansions were built there in the Ottoman period. From the 6th century, the port of Çengelköy was called ''Sophianai'' because of the palace Justin II built nearby for his consort Sophia. The name ''Çengelköy'' means "hook village" and indeed the village is nestled around a sharp turn of the Bosphorus shoreline, but the origin of the name is uncertain. One story put forward is that the village is named after the 19th-century Ottoman admiral Çengeloğlu Tahir Pasha, who had a waterside mansion built there (and there is a Çengeloğlu Street in Çengelköy). Another story derives the name from the Persian word ''çenkar'', " crab," because of the abundance of seafood in the Bosphorus there. A 16th-century Ottoman document apparently refers to the place as "Çeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salacak
Salacak is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar municipality of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, to the south of the historic center of Üsküdar. The word ''salacak'' means "bench for washing a corpse," but the name is reported to come from ''sala'' meaning "village" (language unspecified) with the Turkish suffix ''-cık'', "small."Hürel, page 272. The neighborhood's best-known landmark is the Maiden's Tower __NOTOC__ The Maiden's Tower ( tr, Kız Kulesi), also known as Leander's Tower (''Tower of Leandros'') since the medieval Byzantine period, is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait, from the coast of Ü ... (Kız Kulesi), just offshore from Salacak in the Bosporus. Notes References ; Printed sources * External links Miscellaneous images of Salacak Neighbourhoods of Üsküdar Fishing communities in Turkey {{Istanbul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul Province
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