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Samatya

Samatya is a quarter of the district of . It is located along the Marmara Sea, and borders to the west on the neighborhood of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St. George of Samatya and Kocamustafapaşa railway station.

Church
Photo: Alessandro57, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint George of Samatya or Surp Kevork is an Armenian church in , . The edifice, built between 1866 and 1887, has been erected above the substructure of a Byzantine church and monastery built in the eleventh century.

Railway station
Kocamustafapaşa station is a railway station on the Sirkeci-Kazlıçeşme Line. The station is located in the Samatya neighborhood of district.

Mosque
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is part of a former Eastern Orthodox monastery converted into a by the Ottomans. It is generally believed that the small building belonged to the Byzantine Monastery of Gastria.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yenikapı and Mevlanakapı.

Quarter
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is a port and a quarter in , , in the metropolitan district of on the side of the Bosphorus, and along the southern shore of the city's historically central peninsula.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 8,541. It is so named because it was founded by migrants from in central Turkey, brought here in the 15th century by Mehmet II to repopulate the city after its conquest.

Samatya

Latitude
41.00068° or 41° 0′ 2″ north
Longitude
28.93267° or 28° 55′ 58″ east
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
8GHC2W2M+73
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6318171354
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
740276
Wiki­data ID
Q3946429
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Samatya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سماطية”
  • Armenian: “Սամաթիա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Samatiya”
  • Catalan: “Samatya”
  • Chinese: “萨玛蒂亚”
  • Chinese: “薩馬提亞”
  • Dutch: “Samatya”
  • French: “Samatya”
  • Greek: “Ψαμάθεια”
  • Indonesian: “Samatya”
  • Irish: “Samatya”
  • Italian: “Samatya”
  • Japanese: “サムティア”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “صماتیه”
  • Russian: “Саматия”
  • Russian: “Саматья”
  • Spanish: “Samatya”
  • Turkish: “Samatya, Fatih”
  • Turkish: “Samatya”

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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 “Samatya”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.