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The district is located near Ortaköy. Defterburnu is between Ortaköy and Kuruçeşme. District residents claim that, the old name is Koruçeşme because of its plenty of rivers. Throughout history, the place has been known with its green groves.
0 Comment » The place between Bebek and Rumeli Hisari was named as Lamekopi in Greek and Boğazkesen in Turkish. The district takes its current name from the Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret’s home. The meaning of the Persian word “Aşiyan” is “bird’s nest”.
It’s located between Kuruçeşme and Bebek. Its name was Hesta in antiquity. In the Byzantine period the place was also known as Promotu and Anaplus. Ayios Mihael Church, one of the important places of worship in Boğaziçi was here. Mosaic icons of Archangel Mihael were stored in this church told as built by Constantine. It’s [...]
Besiktas is one of the oldest neighborhoods in İstanbul. It’s located in the Rumeli side of the Bosporus, between Ortaköy and Tophane. It’s neighbor to Sisli in the West, Beyoglu in the south, and Sarıyer in the north. According to the written sources about past, its original name is “Beştaş”. This name is coming from [...]
Istanbul cuisine offers a taste of the most delicious traditional Turkish cuisine to the people as the kitchen of palace. The kitchen containing the properties of Eastern and Western cultures and habits emerged in İstanbul. Meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and all kinds of spices are used in Istanbul kitchen. Many of seafood, veal, lamb, goat, [...]