Tophane
Tophane is a quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, running downhill from Galata to the shore of the Bosphorus where it joins up with Karaköy to the southwest and Fındıklı to the northeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter
- Description: quarter in Marmara, Turkey
- Also known as: “Topkhana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Golden Horn and Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque.
Golden Horn
Photo: VikiPicture, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Golden Horn is the district of Istanbul surrounding the banks of the body of water of the same name, which is a bay of the Bosphorus along its western, European coast.
Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque
Mosque
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The Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque is a mosque at the heart of a complex designed and built between 1580 and 1587 by Mimar Sinan, who at the time was in his 90s.
Tophane Fountain
Fountain
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Tophane Fountain is an 18th-century public water fountain built by Ottoman sultan Mahmud I in the Ottoman rococo architecture and situated in the square of Tophane neighborhood in Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karaköy and Bereketzade.
Karaköy
Quarter
Karaköy, the modern name for the old Galata, is a commercial quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, located at the northern part of the Golden Horn mouth on the European side of Bosphorus.
Galata
Quarter
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
Galata is the former name of the Karaköy neighbourhood in Istanbul, which is located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn. The district is connected to the historic Fatih district by several bridges that cross the Golden Horn, most notably the Galata Bridge.
Tophane
- Category: locality
- Location: Galata, Istanbul, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
41.02732° or 41° 1′ 38″ northLongitude
28.98085° or 28° 58′ 51″ eastElevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
8GHC2XGJ+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 6274112545OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Tophane” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Թոփհանե”
- Azerbaijani: “Topxana”
- Chechen: “ТопхӀане”
- Dutch: “Tophane”
- French: “Top Hané”
- French: “Top-Hana”
- French: “Top-Hané”
- French: “Tophana”
- French: “Tophane”
- German: “Tophane”
- Greek: “Τοπ Χανέ”
- Irish: “Tophane”
- Italian: “Tophane”
- Japanese: “トプハーネ”
- Portuguese: “Tophane”
- Russian: “Топхан”
- Turkish: “Tophane”
- Urdu: “توپ خانہ، بےاوغلو”
- Urdu: “توپ خانہ”
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