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Map of the districts of Istanbul. This is a list of neighbourhoods (Turkish: mahalle) of Istanbul, Turkey, classified by the districts of Istanbul.Neighbourhoods are not considered an administrative division of the districts, but they have legally established borders and a "head man" (called muhtar in Turkish) who are elected by universal suffrage and have minor duties like certifying copies ...
II) and 24 Shawwal (Chev.) 1274, in 1858; the organisation of the central city in the city walls, "Stamboul" (Turkish: İstanbul), was not affected by these laws. All of Constantinople (all of which today is now Istanbul) was in the Prefecture of the City of Constantinople (French: Préfecture de la Ville de Constantinople). [12]
Küçükçekmece (Turkish: [cyˈtʃyc.tʃec.me.dʒe]; meaning “small-drawer”, from much earlier Rhegion (Greek: Ρήγιον) and Küçükçökmece as “little breakdown" or “little depression”, in more ancient times just as Bathonea), [2] is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. [3]
In the early years of the Turkish Republic, it was still very rural, with village cottages, farmland behind, and by the sea the odd weekend home for people of Istanbul. The area was a very popular day or weekend trip from the city, there is a sandy shoreline, a long seafront and until the 1970s families would come out to Büyükçekmece for ...
name = Istanbul Name used in the default map caption; image = Turkey Istanbul location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 41.619888 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 40.796666 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 27.941666 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal ...
Turkey is also subdivided into 7 regions and 21 subregions for geographic, demographic and economic purposes; this does not refer to an administrative division. The largely centralized structure of decision-making in Ankara is often considered an impediment to good governance, [3] [4] [5] and causes resentment in particular in ethnic minority ...
The lake has a length of 10 km (6.2 mi) north-south by a maximum width of 6 km (3.7 mi). The lake's surface area is 16 km 2 (6.2 sq mi), and its maximum depth is 20 m (66 ft). [5] [6] The lake is significantly polluted due to rapid urbanization, migration and industrialization activities over the last decade in the area around it. Its water is ...
Beykoz (Turkish pronunciation:) is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. [3] Its area is 310 km 2, [4] and its population is 247,875 (2022). [2] It lies at the northern end of the Bosphorus on the Anatolian side. The name is believed to be a combination of the words bey and kos, which means "village" in Farsi. [5]