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Leander Tower

The Maiden's Tower, also known as Leander's Tower since the Byzantine period, is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait, 200 m from the coast of in , .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: lighthouse at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Kiz Kulesi”, “Kız Kulesi”, “Leander’s Tower”, “Maiden’s Tower”, and “Tower of Leandros”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Topkapı Palace and Ayazma Mosque.

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. is situated 2 km southwest of Leander Tower.

Mosque
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The is a mosque in the neighbourhood of in , . It stands on a hillside overlooking the . It was commissioned by Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III and built between 1757 and 1761. is situated 430 metres northeast of Leander Tower.

Mosque
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is situated 320 metres east of Leander Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Salacak and Üsküdar.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 9,522. It is located on the Asian shore of the , to the south of the historic center of Üsküdar.

Town
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is a municipality and district of . Its area is 35 km2, and its population is 524,452. It is a large and densely populated district on the shore of the Bosphorus.

Quarter
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is the northernmost neighbourhood of the district of , Turkey, on the European coast of the Bosphorus. is to the south and to the north.

Leander Tower

Latitude
41.02109° or 41° 1′ 16″ north
Longitude
29.00414° or 29° 0′ 15″ east
Open location code
8GHF22C3+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 103821246
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6947674
Wiki­data ID
Q848397
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yakut—“Leander Tower” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Afrikaans: “Leandros-toring”
  • Afrikaans: “Maagdetoring”
  • Albanian: “Kulla e Vajzës”
  • Arabic: “برج الفتاة”
  • Armenian: “Կույսի աշտարակ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qız qalası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qız qülləsi”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡыҙ күләһе (Истанбул)”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡыҙ күләһе”
  • Bosnian: “Djevojačka kula”
  • Bosnian: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Bulgarian: “Момина кула”
  • Chinese: “少女塔”
  • Czech: “Panenská věž (Turecko)”
  • Czech: “Panenská věž”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kız kulesi”
  • Dutch: “Kiz Kulesi”
  • Dutch: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Dutch: “Leandertoren”
  • Esperanto: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Estonian: “Neitsitorn (İstanbul)”
  • Estonian: “Neitsitorn”
  • French: “tour de Léandre”
  • French: “Tour de Léandre”
  • French: “Tour de Leandros”
  • Georgian: “ქალის კოშკი”
  • German: “Kiz Kulesi”
  • German: “Leanderturm”
  • German: “Mädchenturm”
  • Greek: “Πύργος του Λεάνδρου”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל הנערה”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל מיידן”
  • Hungarian: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Hungarian: “lánytorony”
  • Hungarian: “Szűz tornya”
  • Indonesian: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Leandros”
  • Irish: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Italian: “Torre di Leandro”
  • Italian: “Torre Maiden”
  • Japanese: “乙女の塔”
  • Korean: “마이덴 타워”
  • Korean: “크즈 쿨레시”
  • Latin: “Turris Virginis”
  • Lithuanian: “Mergelės bokštas”
  • Macedonian: “Киз”
  • Macedonian: “Леандрова кула”
  • Macedonian: “Момина кула”
  • Malay: “Menara Pemudi”
  • Persian: “برج دختر”
  • Persian: “قلعه دختر استانبول”
  • Polish: “Wieża Dziewicy”
  • Polish: “Wieża Leandra”
  • Portuguese: “Kiz Kulesi”
  • Portuguese: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Leandro”
  • Romanian: “Turnul Fecioarei”
  • Russian: “Девичья башня”
  • Russian: “Леандрова башня”
  • Serbian: “Девојачка кула”
  • Slovak: “Panenská veža”
  • Slovenian: “Deviški stolp”
  • Spanish: “Torre de la Doncella”
  • Swedish: “Jungfrutornet”
  • Swedish: “Kiz Kulesi”
  • Swedish: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Swedish: “Leanders torn”
  • Swedish: “Leandertornet”
  • Tatar: “Кызлар манарасы (Истанбул)”
  • Tatar: “Кызлар манарасы”
  • Turkish: “Kız adası”
  • Turkish: “Kız Kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Kızkulesi”
  • Uighur: “قىز مۇنارى”
  • Ukrainian: “Дівоча вежа”
  • Urdu: “میڈن ٹاور”
  • Uzbek: “Qiz minorasi”
  • Venetian: “Tore de Leandro”
  • Yakut: “Кыыс башнята (Стамбул)”
  • Yakut: “Кыыс башнята”

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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 “Leander Tower”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.