Beşiktaş
Beşiktaş is a town in Beşiktaş, Istanbul and has about 167,000 residents. Beşiktaş is situated nearby to the neighborhood Sinanpaşa, as well as near the quarter Akaretler.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Naval Museum and Dolmabahçe Palace.
Naval Museum
Museum
Photo: CeeGee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Istanbul Naval Museum is a national naval museum, located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey. It was established in 1897 by the Ottoman Minister of the Navy Bozcaadalı Hasan Hüsnü Pasha.
Dolmabahçe Palace
Park
Photo: Robert.raderschatt, Public domain.
Dolmabahçe Palace is a 19th-century imperial palace located in Istanbul, Turkey, along the European shore of the Bosporus, which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922.
Çırağan palace
Castle
Çırağan Palace, a former Ottoman palace, is now a five-star hotel in the Kempinski Hotels chain. It is located on the European shore of the Bosporus, between Beşiktaş and Ortaköy in Istanbul, Turkey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sinanpaşa and Vişnezade.
Vişnezade
Suburb
Vişnezade is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 7,959 as of 2023. Vişne translates to "sour cherry" from Turkish and the neighborhood is named after İzzeti Mehmet Efendi, an Ottoman statesman nicknamed Vişnezade who was known to cultivate sour cherry in the place of this neighborhood.
Yıldız
Suburb
Photo: Chapultepec, Public domain.
Yıldız is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,385. The neighbourhood comprises some of Istanbul's well known historical locations, such as Yıldız Park and Yıldız Palace, the second-largest palace in Istanbul.
Beşiktaş
- Type: Town with 167,000 residents
- Also known as: “Beshik Tash” and “Besiktas”
- Category: locality
- Location: Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
41.04285° or 41° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
29.00753° or 29° 0′ 27″ eastPopulation
167,000Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)United Nations Location Code
TR BTSOpen location code
8GHF22V5+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 251302687OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
750733
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Serbian—“Beşiktaş” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بشكطاش”
- Greek: “Μπεσίκτας”
- Russian: “Ардаган”
- Serbian: “Бешикташ”
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