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Sirkeci

Sirkeci is a neighborhood in the quarter of the district in , . In the Byzantine period, the area was known as Prosphorion.
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Photo: Hamdigumus, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hagia Sophia and Topkapı Palace.

Mosque
Photo: Myrabella, Public domain.
, officially the Grand Mosque, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in , . It was formerly a church and a .

Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the district of in . From the 1460s to the completion of in 1856, it served as the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire, and was the main residence of its sultans.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a railway museum in the historic in the Sirkeci neighborhood of district in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eminönü and Mollafenari.

Quarter
Photo: HALUK COMERTEL, CC BY 3.0.
, historically known as Pérama, is a predominantly commercial waterfront area of within the district near the confluence of the Golden Horn with the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait and the Sea of Marmara.

Suburb
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 99. It is on the European side of .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Sirkeci

Latitude
41.01485° or 41° 0′ 54″ north
Longitude
28.97549° or 28° 58′ 32″ east
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR SIR
Open location code
8GHC2X7G+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7863036213
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
739560
Wiki­data ID
Q935953
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sirkeci” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سركجي”
  • Armenian: “Սիրկեջի”
  • Armenian: “Սիրքեջի”
  • Chinese: “錫爾凱吉”
  • Dutch: “Sirkeci”
  • French: “Sirkeci”
  • Hungarian: “Sirkeci”
  • Indonesian: “Sirkeci”
  • Irish: “Sirkeci”
  • Italian: “Sirkeci”
  • Japanese: “シルケジ”
  • Japanese: “スィルケジ”
  • Latvian: “Sirkeci”
  • Latvian: “Sirkedži, Eminēnī”
  • Latvian: “Sirkedži”
  • Persian: “سرکه‌چی”
  • Portuguese: “Sirkeci”
  • Russian: “Сиркеджи”
  • Turkish: “Sirkeci”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіркеджі”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sirkeci”. Photo: Hamdigumus, CC BY-SA 4.0.