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Galata

Galata 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.
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  • Type: Town with 239,000 residents
  • Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Beyoglu”, “Beyoğlu”, and “Konstantin Pera”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Golden Horn and Galata Tower.

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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.

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The , officially the Museum, is a medieval Genoese in the part of the Beyoğlu district of , . Built as a watchtower at the highest point of the mostly demolished Walls of Galata, the tower is now an exhibition space and museum, and a symbol of Beyoğlu and Istanbul.

Museum
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is a museum in a 19th-century house in created by novelist Orhan Pamuk as a companion to his novel .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Istanbul and New City.

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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.

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Istanbul's 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.

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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.

Galata

Latitude
41.02842° or 41° 1′ 42″ north
Longitude
28.97368° or 28° 58′ 25″ east
Population
239,000
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR BYO
Open location code
8GHC2XHF+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1651655687
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
750640
Wiki­data ID
Q217411
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Galata” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Beyoglu”
  • Afrikaans: “Beyoğlu”
  • Albanian: “Bejollu”
  • Arabic: “بايوغلو”
  • Arabic: “بك أوغلي”
  • Armenian: “Բեյօղլու”
  • Asturian: “Beyoğlu (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəyoğlu”
  • Bashkir: “Бейуғлы”
  • Bashkir: “Бейулы”
  • Belarusian: “Беёглу”
  • Belarusian: “Бэёглу”
  • Bulgarian: “Бейоглу”
  • Catalan: “Beyoğlu”
  • Catalan: “Pera”
  • Cebuano: “Beyoğlu”
  • Chechen: “БейогӀлу”
  • Chinese: “Beyoğlu”
  • Chinese: “貝伊奧盧”
  • Chinese: “贝伊奥卢”
  • Czech: “Beyoğlu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Beyoğlu”
  • Dutch: “Beyoglu”
  • Dutch: “Beyoğlu”
  • Esperanto: “Bejoglu”
  • Finnish: “Beyoğlu”
  • French: “Beyoğlu”
  • French: “Pera”
  • French: “Péra”
  • Gagauz: “Beyoolu”
  • Georgian: “ბეიოღლუ”
  • German: “Beyoglu”
  • German: “Beyoğlu”
  • German: “Gemeinde Beyoglu”
  • Gilaki: “بی‌اؤغلۊ (شأر)”
  • Gilaki: “بی‌اؤغلۊ”
  • Greek: “Μπέγιογλου”
  • Greek: “Μπέιογλου”
  • Greek: “Πέραν”
  • Hebrew: “ביוגלו”
  • Hebrew: “בייאואולו”
  • Hebrew: “גלאטה”
  • Hungarian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Indonesian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Irish: “Beyoğlu”
  • Italian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Beyoğlu”
  • Italian: “Pera”
  • Japanese: “ベイオール”
  • Japanese: “ベイオール区”
  • Japanese: “べヨール”
  • Japanese: “ベヨグル”
  • Kazakh: “Биұлы”
  • Kirghiz: “Бек-Уулу”
  • Korean: “베욜루”
  • Korean: “베이욜루”
  • Kurdish: “Beyoğlu”
  • Latin: “Pera”
  • Latvian: “Bejolu rajons”
  • Latvian: “Bejolu”
  • Latvian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Macedonian: “Бејоглу”
  • Malay: “Beyoğlu”
  • Maltese: “Beyoğlu”
  • Mazanderani: “بی‌اوغلو (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “بی‌اوغلو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beyoğlu”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߋߦߐߜ߭ߑߟߎ߫”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beyoglu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beyoğlu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beyoğlu”
  • Norwegian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Ossetian: “Бейоглу”
  • Persian: “بی‌اوغلو (استانبول)”
  • Persian: “بی‌اوغلو”
  • Polish: “Beyoğlu”
  • Portuguese: “Beyoglu”
  • Portuguese: “Beyoğlu”
  • Romanian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Russian: “Бейоглу”
  • Scots: “Beyoğlu”
  • Serbian: “Бејоглу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beyoğlu”
  • Slovenian: “Beyoğlu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بی‌اوغلو”
  • Spanish: “Beyoglu”
  • Spanish: “Beyoğlu”
  • Swahili: “Beyoğlu”
  • Swedish: “Beyoglu”
  • Swedish: “Beyoğlu”
  • Tatar: “Бейоглу”
  • Tatar: “Биуглы”
  • Turkish: “Beyoğlu Belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Beyoglu”
  • Turkish: “Beyoğlu”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейоглу”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейоґлу”
  • Urdu: “بےاوغلو”
  • Vietnamese: “Beyoğlu”
  • Western Armenian: “Պէյօղլու”
  • Western Mari: “Бейоглу”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیوگلو”
  • “Beyoğlu”
  • “Beyoğlu ilçesi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Galata”. Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.