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It was a popular gathering place where Ottoman intellectual rubbed shoulders with Europeans and the local Italian and French Levantines. When 19th-century travelers referred to Constantinople (today Istanbul) as the Paris of the East, they were usually thinking of the Grande Rue de Péra and its cosmopolitan, half-European, half-Asian culture.
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 ...
Kennedy Avenue (Turkish: Kennedy Caddesi) is a 13-kilometre-long (8.08 mi) avenue in Istanbul, Turkey that travels southwest from Sirkeci district to Bakırköy District and most importantly to the Atatürk Airport. The avenue is named for the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy.
Pages in category "Streets in Istanbul" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abdi İpekçi Street; B.
Pervititch is known for his eponymous Pervititch Maps (Turkish: Pervititch Haritaları, properly the Plan cadastral d’assurances de la ville de Constantinople), a series of highly detailed cadastral insurance maps depicting urbanised areas of Istanbul. The maps were a continuation of three previous series prepared by Charles E. Goad, an ...
Once a predominantly Christian (Armenians, Greeks, and Turkish Levantine) neighbourhood, [6] [7] its population today mostly consists of Turks and Kurds who moved there after the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923 and after the Istanbul pogrom in 1955.
The French poet André Chénier was born in Karaköy in 1762; his father was a French merchant and diplomat, his mother an Ottoman Greek. Karaköy experienced a second wave of Christian arrivals when British, French and Italian forces of the Allies came to Istanbul to fight in the Crimean War (1854–1856).
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]