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'Independence Avenue') is a 1.4 kilometre (0.87 mi) pedestrian street in the historic Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey. It is one of the most famous avenues in the city. It acquired its modern name after the declaration of the Republic on 29 October 1923, İstiklal (Independence) commemorating Turkey's triumph in its War of ...
This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these ...
Çiçek Pasajı (Turkish: Flower Passage), originally called the Cité de Péra, is a famous historic passage (galleria or arcade) on İstiklal Avenue in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey. A covered arcade with rows of historic cafes, winehouses and restaurants, it connects İstiklal Avenue with Sahne Street and has a side entrance ...
Istiglal anti-materiel rifle, Azerbaijani gun; Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta, or Masjid Istiqlal, or Independence Mosque, National mosque of Indonesia; Istiqlal Mosque in Haifa, Israel
İstiklal (lit. ' independence ') is a national Turkish newspaper. İstiklal may also refer to: İstiklal, Seyhan, a neighborhood in Adana, Turkey; İstiklal Avenue, a major pedestrian shopping street in Istanbul; İstiklal Marşı, the national anthem of Turkey and Northern Cyprus; Istiklal Mosque, Sarajevo, a mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kostantiniyye (Arabic: قسطنطنية, translit. Qusṭanṭinīyya, Persian: قسطنطنیه, translit. Qosṭanṭanīye, Ottoman Turkish: قسطنطينيه, translit. Ḳosṭanṭīnīye) [19] is the name by which the city came to be known in the Islamic world. It is an Arabic calque of Constantinople.
Ethno-religious groups in Istanbul (1896–1965). A multicultural city in 1896, with a 50.5% Muslim population, turned into a predominantly Muslim one after 1925. The Church of St. Anthony of Padua on İstiklal Avenue in Beyoğlu (Pera) is the largest Catholic church in Turkey.
Islah or Al-Islah (الإصلاح ,إصلاح, al-ʾIṣlāḥ) is an Arabic word, usually translated as "reform", in the sense of "to improve, to better, to put something into a better position, correction, correcting something and removing vice, reworking, emendation, reparation, restoration, rectitude, probability, reconciliation."