Golden Horn
The Golden Horn is the district of Istanbul surrounding the banks of the body of water of the same name, which is a bay of the Bosphorus along its western, European coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Galata Tower and Church of St. George.
Galata Tower
The Galata Tower, officially the Galata Tower Museum, is a medieval Genoese tower in the Galata part of the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey. 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.
Church of St. George
Church
Photo: Klearchos Kapoutsis, CC BY 2.0.
The Patriarchal Cathedral Church of St. George is the principal Eastern Orthodox cathedral located in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly Constantinople. Since about 1600, it has been the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople whose leader is regarded…
Gül Mosque
Mosque
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Gül Mosque is a former Byzantine church in Istanbul, Turkey, converted into a mosque by the Ottomans. It is in Vakıf Mektebi Sokak in the district of Fatih, Istanbul, in the neighbourhood of Ayakapı.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Galata and Istanbul.
Galata
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Galata is just north, across the Golden Horn, from the Old City of Istanbul. 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.
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.
Eminönü
Quarter
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Eminönü, historically known as Pérama, is a predominantly commercial waterfront area of Istanbul within the Fatih district near the confluence of the Golden Horn with the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait and the Sea of Marmara.
Golden Horn
- Type: Inlet
- Description: urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey
- Categories: ria, district, neighborhood, and body of water
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Golden Horn” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Goue Horing”
- Albanian: “Briri i Artë”
- Arabic: “القرن الذهبي”
- Armenian: “Ոսկե եղջյուր”
- Armenian: “Ոսկեղջյուր”
- Azerbaijani: “Haliç”
- Basque: “Urrezko Adarra”
- Belarusian: “Залаты Рог”
- Bengali: “গোল্ডেন হর্ন”
- Bengali: “সুবর্ণ শৃঙ্গ”
- Bengali: “সেরাটিনাস উপসাগর”
- Bengali: “হালিচ”
- Bosnian: “Zlatni rog”
- Bulgarian: “Златен рог”
- Catalan: “Corn d’Or”
- Catalan: “Haliç”
- Chinese: “Altın Boynuz”
- Chinese: “Haliç”
- Chinese: “Χ’ρυσόν‘ Κ’έρας’”
- Chinese: “Χρυσόν Κέρας”
- Chinese: “哈利奇”
- Chinese: “金角湾”
- Chinese: “金角灣”
- Chuvash: “Ылтӑн Мӑйрака (Стамбул)”
- Chuvash: “Ылтӑн Мӑйрака”
- Croatian: “Zlatni rog”
- Czech: “Zlatý roh”
- Danish: “Det gyldne Horn”
- Dutch: “Gouden Hoorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القرن الذهبى”
- Esperanto: “Ora Korno”
- Estonian: “Kuldsarve laht”
- Finnish: “Kultainen sarvi”
- French: “Corne d’Or”
- Galician: “Corno de Ouro”
- Georgian: “ოქროს რქა”
- Georgian: “ჰალიჩი”
- German: “Goldenes Horn”
- German: “Haliç”
- Greek: “Κεράτιος κόλπος”
- Greek: “Κεράτιος Κόλπος”
- Hebrew: “הליצ‘”
- Hebrew: “הליץ‘”
- Hebrew: “קרן הזהב”
- Hungarian: “Aranyszarv-öböl”
- Indonesian: “Tanduk Emas”
- Italian: “Corno d’oro”
- Italian: “Corno d’Oro”
- Japanese: “ハリーチ湾”
- Japanese: “金角湾”
- Korean: “금각만”
- Ladino: “Haliç”
- Ladino: “Korno de Oro”
- Latin: “Sinus Ceratinus”
- Latvian: “Zelta rags”
- Lithuanian: “Aukso Ragas”
- Macedonian: “Златен Рог”
- Malay: “Tanduk Emas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gyldne horn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gylne horn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gylne horn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haliç”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det gylne hornet”
- Norwegian: “Det gylne horn”
- Ossetian: “Зæрин Сыкъа”
- Persian: “خلیج استانبول”
- Persian: “خلیج”
- Persian: “شاخ زرین”
- Persian: “شاخ طلایی”
- Polish: “Złoty Róg”
- Portuguese: “Chifre de Ouro”
- Portuguese: “Corno de Ouro”
- Romanian: “Cornul de Aur”
- Russian: “Золотой Рог”
- Russian: “Халич”
- Serbian: “Altın Boynuz”
- Serbian: “Chrysón Kéras”
- Serbian: “Haliç”
- Serbian: “Zlatni rog”
- Serbian: “Χρυσόν Κέρας”
- Serbian: “Златни рог”
- Serbian: “Златни Рог”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zlatni rog”
- Slovak: “Zlatý roh”
- Slovenian: “Zlati rog”
- South Azerbaijani: “خلیج (ایستانبول)”
- South Azerbaijani: “خلیج”
- Spanish: “Cuerno de Oro”
- Spanish: “Cuerno Dorado”
- Spanish: “Halic”
- Spanish: “Haliç”
- Swedish: “Gyllene hornet”
- Swedish: “Halic”
- Swedish: “Haliç”
- Turkish: “Altın Boynuz”
- Turkish: “Haliç”
- Ukrainian: “Золотий Ріг”
- Ukrainian: “Халіч”
- Urdu: “شاخ زریں”
- Vietnamese: “Sừng Vàng”
- Welsh: “Hafan Euraid”
- Western Armenian: “Ոսկէ Եղջիւր”
- Western Panjabi: “سنہری سنگ”
- Western Panjabi: “شاخ زریں”
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