Beşiktaş
Beşiktaş is a district and municipality of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 18 km2 and its population is 175,190. It is located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Turkey with 187,000 residents
- Description: district of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey
- Also known as: “Besiktas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yıldız Palace and Istanbul Sapphire.
Yıldız Palace
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Yıldız Palace is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman pavilions and villas in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was used as a residence by the sultan and his court in the late 19th century.
Istanbul Sapphire
Shopping center
Photo: Artemco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Istanbul Sapphire, or Sapphire, is a residential skyscraper located in the central business district of Levent in Istanbul, Turkey. It was Istanbul's and Turkey's tallest skyscraper between 2010 and 2016, and the 4th tallest building in Europe when its construction was completed in 2010.
Bosphorus Bridge
Bridge
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The Bosphorus Bridge, known officially as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge and colloquially as the First Bridge, is the oldest and southernmost of the three suspension bridges spanning the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey, thus connecting Europe and Asia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include European Bosphorus and New City.
European Bosphorus
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The European Bosphorus is the area of Istanbul along the banks of the channel of the same name that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and separates Europe from Asia.
New City
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Istanbul's New City is a modern district north of Taksim Square. Its neighbourhoods of Elmadağ, Nişantaşı, Kurtuluş and Şişli were built up in the early 20th century, then more recently appeared the business district between Mecidiyeköy and Levent-Maslak.
Istanbul
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Istanbul is a very large city of fantastic history, culture and beauty. Called Byzantium in ancient times, the city's name was changed to Constantinople in 324 CE when it was rebuilt by the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine.
Beşiktaş
- Categories: town, district of Turkey, and city
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Beşiktaş” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beşiktaş”
- Albanian: “Beshiktash”
- Arabic: “بشكطاش”
- Armenian: “Բեշիքթաշ”
- Asturian: “Beşiktaş (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Beşiktaş”
- Azerbaijani: “Beşiktaş”
- Bashkir: “Бишекташ”
- Belarusian: “Бешыкташ”
- Belarusian: “Бэшыкташ”
- Bosnian: “Bešiktaš”
- Bosnian: “Beşiktaş”
- Breton: “Beşiktaş”
- Bulgarian: “Бешикташ”
- Catalan: “Beşiktaş”
- Cebuano: “Beşiktaş”
- Chechen: “Бешикташа”
- Chinese: “Beşiktaş”
- Chinese: “貝希克塔什”
- Chinese: “贝希克塔什”
- Chinese: “贝西克塔什”
- Chinese: “贝西克塔斯”
- Czech: “Besiktas”
- Czech: “Beşiktaş”
- Dimli (individual language): “Beşiktaş, Estamol”
- Dutch: “Besiktas”
- Dutch: “Beşiktaş”
- Finnish: “Besiktas”
- Finnish: “Beşiktaş”
- French: “Besiktas”
- French: “Beşiktaş”
- Georgian: “ბეშიქთაში”
- German: “Besiktas”
- German: “Beşiktaş”
- Greek: “Διπλοκιόνιο”
- Greek: “Μπεσικτάς”
- Greek: “Μπεσίκτας”
- Hebrew: “בשיקטש (איסטנבול)”
- Hebrew: “בשיקטש”
- Hungarian: “Beşiktaş”
- Indonesian: “Beşiktaş”
- Irish: “Beşiktaş”
- Italian: “Besiktas”
- Italian: “Beşiktaş”
- Japanese: “ベシクタシュ”
- Kazakh: “Бесіктас (аудан)”
- Kazakh: “Бешикташ”
- Kirghiz: “Бешикташ”
- Korean: “베식타시”
- Kurdish: “Beşiktaş J.K.”
- Kurdish: “Beşiktaş”
- Kurdish: “بەشکتاش”
- Latvian: “Bešiktaša”
- Latvian: “Bešiktašas rajons”
- Lithuanian: “Bešiktašas”
- Macedonian: “Бешикташ”
- Malay: “Beşiktaş”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Beşiktaş”
- Mingrelian: “ბეშიქთაშიშ რაიონი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beşiktaş”
- Norwegian: “Beşiktaş”
- Ossetian: “Бешикташ”
- Persian: “بشیکتاش”
- Polish: “Besiktas”
- Polish: “Beşiktaş”
- Portuguese: “Besiktas”
- Portuguese: “Beşiktaş”
- Russian: “Бешикташ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beşiktaş”
- Slovenian: “Besiktas”
- Slovenian: “Beşiktaş”
- South Azerbaijani: “بشیکتاش”
- Spanish: “Besiktas”
- Spanish: “Beşiktaş”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Beşiktaş”
- Swahili: “Beşiktaş”
- Swedish: “Besiktas”
- Swedish: “Beşiktaş”
- Tatar: “Бешикташ”
- Tatar: “Бишекташ”
- Turkish: “Besiktas”
- Turkish: “Beşiktaş”
- Uighur: “بەشىكتاش”
- Ukrainian: “Бешикташ”
- Urdu: “بیشکتاش”
- Vietnamese: “Beşiktaş”
- Western Armenian: “Պէշիկթաշ”
- Western Mari: “Бешикташ”
- Western Panjabi: “بیشکتاش”
- “Beşiktaş”
- “Beşiktaş ilçesi”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hyatt Centric Levent Istanbul and Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent.
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