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Zeytinburnu

Zeytinburnu is a municipality and district of , Turkey. Its area is 12 km2, and its population is 292,616. It is a working-class area on the European side of , Turkey, on the shore of the Marmara Sea just outside the , beyond the fortress of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Yedikule Fortress and Balikli Meryem Ana Rum Manastiri.

Castle
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a fortified historic structure located in the neighbourhood of , in , . Built in 1458 on the commission of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, the seven-tower complex was created by adding three new towers and fully…

Church
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The Monastery of the Mother of God at the Spring or simply Zoödochos Pege is an Eastern Orthodox sanctuary in , . The present church, built in 1835, bears the same dedication as the shrine erected in this place between the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century.

Mosque
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is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans, located in , Turkey. The church, as the adjoining monastery, was dedicated to Saint Andrew of Crete, and was named Saint Andrew in Krisei or by-the-Judgment.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Historical Peninsula and Güngören.

Photo: Sinoplu diyojen, Public domain.
The is the oldest part of . It's the location of most of its sights, with several ranked as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's on the western, European side of the Bosphorus, with the sea to the south and the inlet of the Golden Horn to the north.

Town
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is a municipality and district of . Its area is 7 km2, making it the smallest district of Turkey in terms of land area. is situated 4½ km northwest of Zeytinburnu.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Zeytinburnu

Latitude
40.9899° or 40° 59′ 24″ north
Longitude
28.9037° or 28° 54′ 14″ east
Population
288,000
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
8GGCXWQ3+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26505044
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7732593
Wiki­data ID
Q197095
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Zeytinburnu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رأس الزيتون”
  • Arabic: “زيتون بورنو”
  • Arabic: “قضاء رأس الزيتون”
  • Armenian: “Զեյթինբուրնու”
  • Asturian: “Zeytinburnu (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zeytunburnu”
  • Bashkir: “Зәйтүнмороно”
  • Belarusian: “Зейтынбурну”
  • Bulgarian: “Зейтинбурну”
  • Catalan: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Cebuano: “Zeytinburnu (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Chechen: “Зейтинбурну”
  • Chinese: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Chinese: “宰廷布尔努”
  • Chinese: “宰廷布爾努”
  • Chinese: “橄榄角”
  • Chinese: “泽伊廷布尔努”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Zeytinburnu”
  • Dutch: “Zeytinburnu”
  • French: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Georgian: “ზეითინბურნუ”
  • German: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Greek: “Ζεϊτινμπούρνου”
  • Hebrew: “זייטינבורנו”
  • Hungarian: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Indonesian: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Irish: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Italian: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Japanese: “ゼイティンブルヌ”
  • Kurdish: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Latvian: “Zejtinburnu rajons”
  • Malay: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Norwegian: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Ossetian: “Зейтинбурну”
  • Persian: “زیتین‌بورنو”
  • Portuguese: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Russian: “Зейтинбурну”
  • Serbian: “Зејтинбурну”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زئیتون‌بورنو”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Zeytinburnu”
  • Spanish: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Swahili: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Tatar: “Зәйтүнморны”
  • Tatar: “Зейтинбурну”
  • Turkish: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Зеїтінбурну”
  • Ukrainian: “Зейтінбурну”
  • Urdu: “زیتین بورنو”
  • Vietnamese: “Zeytinburnu”
  • Western Mari: “Зейтинбурну”
  • Western Panjabi: “زیتونبرنو”
  • “Zeytinburnu”
  • “Zeytinburnu ilçesi”

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