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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 unknown when and for what reason this place named as Arnavutköy. According to a rumor, Albanians have been settled there by II. Mehmet (Fatih).
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 five-stone columns Barbaros Hayreddin Pahsa set up to connect the ships to the coast. “Beştaş” name has evolved to Besiktas over in time.
Besiktas district, consists of 23 neighborhoods which are Abbasağa, Akatlar, Arnavutköy, Balmumcu, Bebek, Cihannüma, Obelisk, Etiler, Gayrettepe, Mansions, Kuruçeşme, Kültür, Levazim, Levent, Mecidiye, Ortaköy, Muradiye, Nispetiye, Sinanpaşa, Türkali, Ulus, Yıldız and Vişnezade. (more…)