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Balat

Balat is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 11,656. It is in the old city on the side of Istanbul, on the western shore of the , sandwiched between and Ayvansaray.
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  • Type: Suburb with 11,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Balat, Fatih”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Golden Horn and Bulgarian Church of St. Stephen.

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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.

Church
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The Bulgarian St. Stephen Church, also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church, is a Bulgarian Orthodox church in Balat, , . It is famous for being made of prefabricated cast iron elements in the Neo-Byzantine style.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Church of Theotokos Pammakaristos, is one of the most famous Byzantine church buildings in , , and was the last pre-Ottoman building to house the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fener and Hasköy.

Quarter
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, also spelled Phanar, is a quarter midway up the in the district of in , . The Turkish name is derived from the Greek word "phanarion", meaning lantern, streetlight or lamppost; the neighborhood was so called because of a column topped with a lantern which stood here in the Byzantine period and was used as a street light or lighthouse.

Quarter
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is a trading and residential district on the northern bank of the in , , . It includes the neighbourhoods of Keçeci Piri, Piri Paşa, and Halıcıoğlu, and parts of Camiikebir and Sütlüce.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Balat

Latitude
41.032° or 41° 1′ 55″ north
Longitude
28.94829° or 28° 56′ 54″ east
Population
11,000
Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)
Open location code
8GHC2WJX+R8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4999341422
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8624502
Wiki­data ID
Q48796
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Balat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بالات”
  • Arabic: “بلاط”
  • Arabic: “حي بلاط”
  • Armenian: “Բալաթ”
  • Bulgarian: “Балат”
  • Catalan: “Balat”
  • Chechen: “Балат”
  • Chinese: “巴拉特”
  • Dutch: “Balat”
  • French: “Balat”
  • German: “Balat”
  • Greek: “Μπαλάτ”
  • Hebrew: “באלאט”
  • Hebrew: “בלט (איסטנבול)”
  • Indonesian: “Balat”
  • Irish: “Balat”
  • Italian: “Balat”
  • Japanese: “ボラト”
  • Ladino: “Balat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balat”
  • Norwegian: “Balat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Balat”
  • Persian: “بلاط”
  • Polish: “Balat”
  • Portuguese: “Balat”
  • Russian: “Балат”
  • Serbian: “Балат, Фатих (Истанбул)”
  • Serbian: “Балат, Фатих”
  • Spanish: “Balat”
  • Turkish: “Balat, Fatih”
  • Turkish: “Balat”
  • Ukrainian: “Балат”
  • Uzbek: “Balat”
  • “Balat”

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