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Aksaray

Aksaray 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.
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  • Type: Suburb with 8,540 residents
  • Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Fatih, İstanbul–Europe, northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Aksaray, Fatih”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque and Myrelaion (Bodrum Mosque).

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The , also known as the Aksaray Valide Mosque, is a grand Ottoman imperial mosque in , . It is located at the intersection of Ordu Street and Atatürk Boulevard in the Aksaray neighborhood beside the Pertevniyal High School which was also built by the order of Sultana Pertevniyal in 1872.

Mosque
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Bodrum Mosque in , , is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a by the Ottomans. The church was known under the Greek name of Myrelaion.

Mosque
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The is a 15th century Ottoman squeezed in between two busy roads linking Aksaray and Yusufpaşa in the district of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yenikapı and Laleli.

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.

Quarter
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is a neighbourhood of , , Turkey, lying between and Aksaray. It is known for its large textile wholesaling business and is home to the Literature and Science Faculties of Istanbul University, designed by Sedad Hakkı Eldem and Emin Onat in the 1940s.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 12,024. It is in the European part of .

Aksaray

Latitude
41.00831° or 41° 0′ 30″ north
Longitude
28.95028° or 28° 57′ 1″ east
Population
8,540
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR AKS
Open location code
8GHC2X52+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4999339820
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7669106
Wiki­data ID
Q123751
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Aksaray” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آق سراي”
  • Arabic: “أكسراي”
  • Armenian: “Աքսարայ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aksaray”
  • Bulgarian: “Аксарай (квартал на Истанбул)”
  • Bulgarian: “Аксарай”
  • Chechen: “Аксарай”
  • Czech: “Aksaraj”
  • French: “Aksaray (Fatih)”
  • French: “Aksaray”
  • German: “Aksaray”
  • Greek: “Ακσαράι”
  • Irish: “Aksaray”
  • Italian: “Aksaray”
  • Japanese: “アクサライ”
  • Macedonian: “Аксарај”
  • Mazanderani: “آق‌سرای، استانبول”
  • Mingrelian: “აქსარაი”
  • Persian: “آق‌سرای، استانبول”
  • Persian: “آک‌سارای، استانبول”
  • Portuguese: “Aksaray”
  • Romanian: “Aksaray, Fatih”
  • Romanian: “Aksaray”
  • Russian: “Аксарай”
  • Spanish: “Aksaray”
  • Turkish: “Aksaray, Fatih”
  • Turkish: “Aksaray”
  • Ukrainian: “Аксарай”
  • Urdu: “آق سرائے، فاتح”
  • Uzbek: “Aksaray”
  • “Aksaray”

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