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Sarayburnu

Sarayburnu is a promontory quarter separating the and the Sea of Marmara in , Turkey. The area is where the and stand.
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  • Type: Point
  • Description: promontory in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Old Seraglio Point”, “Saray Burnu”, and “Séraï Bournou”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Topkapı Palace and Hagia Sophia.

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.

Mosque
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, officially the Grand Mosque, is a and former and church serving as a major cultural and historical site in , .

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The is a Roman victory column dating to the third or fourth century A.D. It stands in what is now , , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karaköy and Tophane.

Quarter
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, the modern name for the old , is a commercial quarter in the district of , Turkey, located at the northern part of the mouth on the European side of Bosphorus.

Quarter
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is a quarter in the district of , , running downhill from to the shore of the Bosphorus where it joins up with to the southwest and to the northeast.

Quarter
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, 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.

Sarayburnu

Latitude
41.01714° or 41° 1′ 2″ north
Longitude
28.98605° or 28° 59′ 10″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
8GHC2X8P+VC
Geo­Names ID
740203
Wiki­data ID
Q1247633
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sarayburnu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sarayburnu”
  • Afrikaans: “Seraglio-punt”
  • Arabic: “رأس القصر”
  • Arabic: “سراي برنو”
  • Aragonese: “Sarayburnu”
  • Armenian: “Սարայբուրնու”
  • Arpitan: “Sarayburnu”
  • Asturian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Basque: “Sarayburnu”
  • Bavarian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Breton: “Sarayburnu”
  • Catalan: “Sarayburnu”
  • Chinese: “萨拉基里奥角”
  • Chinese: “薩拉基里奧角”
  • Corsican: “Sarayburnu”
  • Croatian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Czech: “Sarayburnu”
  • Danish: “Sarayburnu”
  • Dutch: “Sarayburnu”
  • Esperanto: “Sarayburnu”
  • Estonian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Finnish: “Sarayburnu”
  • French: “Sarayburnu”
  • Friulian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Galician: “Sarayburnu”
  • Georgian: “სარაიბურნუ”
  • German: “Sarayburnu”
  • Greek: “Σαραϊμπουρνού”
  • Icelandic: “Sarayburnu”
  • Ido: “Sarayburnu”
  • Indonesian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Interlingua: “Sarayburnu”
  • Interlingue: “Sarayburnu”
  • Irish: “Sarayburnu”
  • Italian: “promontorio del Serraglio”
  • Italian: “Promontorio del Serraglio”
  • Italian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Japanese: “サライブルヌ”
  • Kongo: “Sarayburnu”
  • Latin: “Chrysoceras”
  • Ligurian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Limburgan: “Sarayburnu”
  • Low German: “Sarayburnu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sarayburnu”
  • Malagasy: “Sarayburnu”
  • Malay: “Sarayburnu”
  • Minangkabau: “Sarayburnu”
  • Narom: “Sarayburnu”
  • Neapolitan: “Sarayburnu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sarayburnu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sarayburnu”
  • Norwegian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sarayburnu”
  • Picard: “Sarayburnu”
  • Piemontese: “Sarayburnu”
  • Polish: “Sarayburnu”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo do Serralho”
  • Portuguese: “Sarayburnu”
  • Portuguese: “Seraglio Point”
  • Romanian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Romansh: “Sarayburnu”
  • Russian: “Сарайбурну”
  • Sardinian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Scots: “Sarayburnu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sarayburnu”
  • Serbian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Serbian: “Сарајбурну”
  • Sicilian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Slovak: “Sarayburnu”
  • Slovenian: “Sarayburnu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سارای‌بورنو”
  • Spanish: “Sarayburnu”
  • Swahili: “Sarayburnu”
  • Swedish: “Sarayburnu”
  • Swiss German: “Sarayburnu”
  • Turkish: “Sarayburnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Сарайбурну”
  • Urdu: “سرائے بورنو”
  • Venetian: “Sarayburnu”
  • Vietnamese: “Mũi Seraglio”
  • Vietnamese: “Sarayburnu”
  • Vlaams: “Sarayburnu”
  • Volapük: “Sarayburnu”
  • Walloon: “Sarayburnu”
  • Welsh: “Sarayburnu”
  • Wolof: “Sarayburnu”
  • Zulu: “Sarayburnu”

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