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Historical Peninsula

The Historical Peninsula 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.
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  • Type: Town with 417,000 residents
  • Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Caroy” and “Fatih”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hagia Sophia and Topkapı Palace.

Mosque
Photo: Myrabella, Public domain.
, officially the Grand Mosque, is a and former and church serving as a major cultural and historical site in , .

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The or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the Fatih district of in . From the 1460s to the completion of in 1856, it served as the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire, and was the main residence of its sultans.

Photo: Antoine-François Andréossy, Public domain.
The was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square in , Turkey, known as Sultanahmet Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Galata and Eminönü.

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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.

Quarter
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, historically known as Pérama, is a predominantly commercial waterfront area of within the Fatih district near the confluence of the Golden Horn with the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait and the Sea of Marmara.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fatih, , . Its population is 8,541. It is so named because it was founded by migrants from in central Turkey, brought here in the 15th century by Mehmet II to repopulate the city after its conquest.

Historical Peninsula

Latitude
41.00528° or 41° 0′ 19″ north
Longitude
28.97667° or 28° 58′ 36″ east
Population
417,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
Open location code
8GHC2X4G+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26504810
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7733237
Wiki­data ID
Q732923
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Historical Peninsula” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fatih”
  • Albanian: “Fatih”
  • Arabic: “الفاتح”
  • Arabic: “فاتح”
  • Arabic: “قضاء الفاتح”
  • Armenian: “պատմական կենտրոն”
  • Armenian: “Ֆաթիհ”
  • Asturian: “Fatih (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Fatih”
  • Avaric: “ФатихІ”
  • Avaric: “ФатихӀ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fateh rayonu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fateh”
  • Bashkir: “Фатих”
  • Basque: “Fatih”
  • Belarusian: “Фатыг”
  • Belarusian: “Фаціх”
  • Bengali: “ফাতিহ”
  • Bosnian: “Fatih”
  • Bulgarian: “Фатих”
  • Catalan: “Fatih”
  • Cebuano: “Fatih”
  • Chechen: “ФатихӀ”
  • Chinese: “Fatih”
  • Chinese: “法提赫”
  • Chinese: “法提赫区”
  • Chinese: “法蒂赫”
  • Chinese: “法齊赫”
  • Czech: “Fatih”
  • Danish: “Fatih”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Fatih”
  • Dutch: “Fatih”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الفاتح”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فاتح”
  • Esperanto: “Fatih”
  • Estonian: “Fatih”
  • Finnish: “Fatih”
  • French: “Fatih”
  • Galician: “Fatih”
  • Georgian: “ფათიჰი”
  • German: “Fatih”
  • German: “Gemeinde Fatih”
  • Greek: “Φατίχ”
  • Hebrew: “העיר העתיקה של איסטנבול”
  • Hebrew: “העיר העתיקה”
  • Hebrew: “פאתיח”
  • Hindi: “फ़ातिह”
  • Hungarian: “Fatih”
  • Indonesian: “Fatih, Istanbul”
  • Indonesian: “Fatih”
  • Irish: “Fatih”
  • Italian: “Fatih”
  • Japanese: “スルタンアフメット”
  • Japanese: “ファーティヒ”
  • Japanese: “ファーティフ”
  • Japanese: “ファーティフ区”
  • Japanese: “ファティ”
  • Japanese: “ファティフ”
  • Japanese: “ファティフ地区”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Fatih”
  • Korean: “파티흐”
  • Kurdish: “Fatih”
  • Latin: “Fatih”
  • Latvian: “Fatihas rajons”
  • Macedonian: “Фатих”
  • Malay: “Fatih”
  • Malay: “فاتح”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fatih”
  • Mingrelian: “Caroy”
  • Mingrelian: “ფათიჰი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fatih”
  • Norwegian: “Fatih”
  • Ossetian: “Фатих”
  • Persian: “فاتح”
  • Polish: “Fatih”
  • Portuguese: “Fatih”
  • Romanian: “Fatih”
  • Russian: “Фатих”
  • Scots: “Fatih”
  • Serbian: “Фатих”
  • Slovenian: “Fatih”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فاتیح”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Fatih”
  • Spanish: “Fatih”
  • Swahili: “Fatih”
  • Swedish: “Fatih”
  • Tatar: “Fatih”
  • Tatar: “Fatix”
  • Tatar: “Фатих”
  • Tatar: “Фатиһ”
  • Tatar: “Яулаучы”
  • Turkish: “Fatih ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Fatih”
  • Ukrainian: “Фатіх”
  • Urdu: “ضلع فاتح”
  • Vietnamese: “Fatih”
  • Welsh: “Fatih”
  • Western Mari: “Фатих”
  • Western Panjabi: “فاتح”
  • “Fatih”
  • “Fatih 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 “Historical Peninsula”. Photo: Sinoplu diyojen, Public domain.