Lara Oge
Edirnekapı/Εδίρνεκαπου
Corresponding to the Byzantine-era neighborhood of Deuteron, the neighborhood of Edirnekapı is named after the Edirne Gate—also known as...
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İstanΠόλις
The neighborhood profile pages are created by University of California, Berkeley students Agustine de Jesus, Amelia Sandgren, George Sicner, Lara Öge, Lukas Carbone, Melody Seraydarian, Yuxuan Du, and Yasmine Kaki under the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program.
yasmineakaki
Oct 85 min read
Yeşilköy / Άγιος Στέφανος
Yeşilköy's natural beauty and reputation as a quiet forested suburb on the Marmara Sea (warranting its renaming the “green village” in...
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yasmineakaki
Sep 74 min read
Topkapı/Τόπ καπι
Sitting along the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople, Topkapı proves a district reminiscent of historical battles. Topkapı’s name derives...
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Lara Oge
Sep 64 min read
Sarmaşık & Salmatobruk / Σαρμασικι & Σαλματοβρούκι
As mentioned in the Introduction post that laid out the framework used in the creation of these profiles, one of the greatest challenges...
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Lara Oge
Aug 123 min read
Eğrikapı / Ἐγρίκαπου
Eğrikapı, formerly known as Charsia, is a neighborhood and former parish gathered around the I. Church of the Dormition of the Virgin...
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Lara Oge
May 195 min read
Phanar / Fener / Φανάρι
Phanar (Φανάρι, Fener ) is a neighborhood on the historic peninsula with shores to the Golden Horn. It is the present-day center of the...
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yasmineakaki
Apr 54 min read
Introduction to the Neighborhood Profiles
Methodologies The Rum Neighborhoods Project was one of the first projects conceived in the Istanpolis Collaborative. In our first...
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yasmineakaki
Apr 54 min read
Langa/Βλάνγκα
Located at the bottom of the third of Istanbul’s Seven Hills, in the valley of the Bayrampaşa stream sits the neighborhood of Langa. In...
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richarddu7
Mar 297 min read
Balat / Παλάτια
Balat, a neighborhood on the coast of the Golden Horn, is in the modern district of Fatih on the historical peninsula of Istanbul. Its...
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Lara Oge
Mar 296 min read
Ayvansaray / Ξυλοπόρτης
Ayvansaray is a neighborhood inside the city walls on the Golden Horn and on the northwestern side of the Historical Peninsula. The name...
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Lara Oge
Mar 293 min read
Tekfursaray / Τεκφούρ σαράι
Tekfursaray is on the northwest of the historical peninsula and adjacent to the land walls in the area surrounding Tekfur Sarayı, a...
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yasmineakaki
Mar 226 min read
Samatya / Ψαμάθεια
Located inside the land walls, Samatya or Psamathia (Ψαμάθεια) in Greek, sits along the coast of the Marmara Sea, bordering the...
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richarddu7
Mar 225 min read
Cibali/Τζιμπαλί
Located on the west bank of the Golden Horn, the neighborhood of Cibali sits on the Land Walls with its name deriving from the Cibali...
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yasmineakaki
Jul 17, 20233 min read
Bakırköy/Μακροχώρι
Bakirköy was founded in the second century by Emperor Septimius Severus as a Roman city called Septimum. Today it lies in European...
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yasmineakaki
Jul 17, 20234 min read
Kumkapı / Κοντοσκάλι
“When I was a lad, I remember visiting Kontoskali…I thought I was in Greece, because there were so many Greek flags.” - Greek journalist...
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