St. George’s Austrian Highschool
St. George's Austrian High School is a private Austrian-Turkish high school located in Karaköy, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey. It is one of several secondary schools that were founded by European or American missions in Turkey during the 19th century, but were then secularized after the founding of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923.Photo: Thire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: School
- Description: high-school in Turkey
- Also known as: “Österreischsches Sankt Georgs-Kolleg”, “Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi ve Ticaret Okulu”, and “St. George’s Austrian High School”
- Address: Kart Çınar Sokağı 2, Bereketzade Mahallesi, İstanbul, Beyoğlu, 34420
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Golden Horn and Galata Tower.
Golden Horn
Photo: VikiPicture, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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. Galata Tower is situated 160 metres north of St. George’s Austrian Highschool.
Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Church
Photo: VikiPicture, CC BY-SA 3.0.
SS Peter and Paul is a Catholic church in Istanbul, important for historical reasons. The church owns an icon of the Virgin of the Hodegetria type, which originally lay in a Dominican church in Caffa, Crimea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bereketzade and Galata.
Galata
Quarter
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
Galata is the former name of the Karaköy neighbourhood in Istanbul, which is located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn. The district is connected to the historic Fatih district by several bridges that cross the Golden Horn, most notably the Galata Bridge.
Karaköy
Quarter
Karaköy, the modern name for the old Galata, is a commercial quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, located at the northern part of the Golden Horn mouth on the European side of Bosphorus.
St. George’s Austrian Highschool
- Categories: gymnasium, Academy of Commerce, high school, and education
- Location: Galata, Istanbul, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
41.02433° or 41° 1′ 28″ northLongitude
28.97354° or 28° 58′ 25″ eastOpen location code
8GHC2XFF+PCOpenStreetMap ID
way 165522348OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q877179
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Welsh—“St. George’s Austrian Highschool” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدرسة سانت جورج النمساويه الثانويه”
- French: “lycée autrichien Saint-Georges”
- French: “Lycée autrichien Saint-Georges”
- German: “Österreichisches St. Georg-Kolleg Istanbul”
- German: “St. Georgs-Kolleg”
- Italian: “Collegio Sankt Georg”
- Russian: “Австрийский Лицей”
- Spanish: “St. Georgs-Kolleg”
- Turkish: “Avusturya Kız Lisesi”
- Turkish: “Avusturya Lisesi”
- Turkish: “Österreichisches St. Georgs Kolleg”
- Turkish: “Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi”
- Turkish: “Sankt Georg”
- Welsh: “Ysgol Uwchradd Awstria Sant Siôr, Awstria”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint George and İl Sivil Toplumla İlişkiler Müdürlüğü.
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