Şişli

Şişli is a municipality and district of . Its area is 10 km2, and its population is 276,528. Located on the side of the city, it is bordered by to the east, to the north, to the west, and to the south.
  • Type: Town with 273,000 residents
  • Description: district of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Chichli”, “Landkreis Şişli”, “Schischli”, “Shishli”, “Sisli”, “Sişli”, “Šišli”, “Şisli”, “Şişli (district)”, “Şişli (distritu)”, “Şişli ilçesi”, “Şişli, İstanbul”, “الشِّيشِيَّةُ”, “قضاء الشيشية”, “シシリ”, “シシリ区”, and “シスリ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Golden Horn and Dolmabahçe Palace.

The is the district of surrounding the banks of the body of water of the same name, which is a bay of the Bosphorus along its western, European coast.

Park
Photo: Robert.raderschatt, Public domain.
is a 19th-century imperial palace located in , , along the shore of the , which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922.

Stadium
Beşiktaş Stadyumu or Beşiktaş Park is an all-seater, multi-purpose in the district of , . It is the home ground of Beşiktaş.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Istanbul and New City.

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.

Istanbul's is a modern district north of . 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.

is just north, across the Golden Horn, from the Old City of . Further north is Beyoğlu: İstiklal Avenue is its thoroughfare, and adjoining Taksim Square is considered the heart of the city — if it were sensible to speak of a "downtown" for multicentric Istanbul, that would most likely refer to this area.

Şişli

Latitude
41.0638° or 41° 3′ 50″ north
Longitude
28.9832° or 28° 58′ 59″ east
Population
273,000
Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)
Open location code
8GHC3X7M+G7
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Şişli” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الشيشية”
  • Arabic: “شيشلي”
  • Armenian: “Շիշլի”
  • Asturian: “Şişli”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şişli”
  • Bashkir: “Шишле”
  • Bulgarian: “Шишли (околия)”
  • Bulgarian: “Шишли”
  • Catalan: “Şişli”
  • Cebuano: “Şişli (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Şişli”
  • Chechen: “Шишли”
  • Chinese: “希什利”
  • Danish: “Şişli”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şişli”
  • Dutch: “Şişli”
  • French: “Şişli”
  • Georgian: “შიშლის რაიონი”
  • German: “Şişli”
  • Greek: “Σισλί”
  • Hindi: “शीश्ली”
  • Hungarian: “Şişli”
  • Indonesian: “Şişli”
  • Irish: “Şişli”
  • Italian: “Şişli”
  • Japanese: “シシュリ”
  • Kurdish: “Şişli”
  • Latvian: “Šišli rajons”
  • Macedonian: “Шишли”
  • Malay: “Şişli”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Şişli”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Şişli”
  • Norwegian: “Şişli”
  • Ossetian: “Шишли”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “شیشلی”
  • Persian: “شیشلی”
  • Portuguese: “Şişli”
  • Russian: “Шишли”
  • Serbian: “Шишли”
  • Slovenian: “Şişli”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیشلی”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Şişli”
  • Spanish: “Şişli”
  • Swahili: “Şişli”
  • Tatar: “Шишле”
  • Tatar: “Шишли”
  • Turkish: “Şişli”
  • Tuvinian: “Шишли”
  • Ukrainian: “Шишлі”
  • Urdu: “شیشلی”
  • Vietnamese: “Şişli”
  • Western Mari: “Шишли”
  • Western Panjabi: “شیشلی”
  • “Şişli”

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Highlights: T.C. Şişli Belediye Başkanlığı and İstanbul Vergi Dairesi.

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