Arnavutköy

Coordinates: 41°4′5″N 29°2′35″E / 41.06806°N 29.04306°E / 41.06806; 29.04306
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This article is about the historic neighbourhood in the Beşiktaş district. For the municipal subdivision of Istanbul with the same name, see Arnavutköy (district).
Arnavutköy
Istanbul
DistrictBeşiktaş
Population
 (2022)
3,574
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Arnavutköy (lit. '

Bosphorus strait
.

The existence of a mosque, church and synagogue in close proximity to one another serves as a reminder of Arnavutköy's past cosmopolitanism.

The coast road is usually lined with anglers and small fishing boats frequently pass Arnavutköy; the fresh fish caught is sometimes sold to the local seafood restaurants. At the eastern end of Arnavutköy the coast juts out to form Akıntıburnu (the Cape of the Current) where the waters of the Bosphorus once flowed so powerfully that small boats had to be towed round it.[5]

Infrequent

Şehir Hatları
(City Lines) ferries call in at the ferry terminal facing Arnavutköy's main square. Otherwise, the busy coast road is served by regular buses.

History

Robert College, Gould Hall

In antiquity, the area was known as Asomato and Anáplus. In 1468, Sultan

Mehmed the Conqueror brought Albanians to the city for pavement construction. He installed them in Arnavutköy, hence the name of the suburb.[1][6][2]

In 1863,

high school
section, formerly named Robert Academy (RA) is still an American school and is located on the Arnavutköy side of the Robert College campus.

According to the

Rûms (Christians), 493 Muslims, 342 Armenians, 32 Jews and 642 people of other nationality.[7][8]

Arnavutköy used to be famous for its

Ottoman strawberries
, a less juicy and smaller version of the strawberries found throughout the rest of Turkey. A few strawberry fields still survive inland from the coast and every spring local greengrocers are mobbed by strawberry lovers.

Architecture

The waterfront at Arnavutköy is lined with some of the most picturesque late 19th and early 20th-century wooden houses to survive along the Bosphorus, many of them decorated in Art Nouveau style.[9] While they look very individual, it is thought that most of the decorative elements on the facades were actually mass-produced.

Education

The American Academy for Girls moved to Arnavutköy in 1914, but in 1923 moved to the Bağlarbaşı neighbourhood of Üsküdar on the Asian side of the city where it continues to accept students as the Üsküdar American Academy.

See also

Gallery

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9783406590634
    . "Europäische Migranten sind verantwortlich für Ortsnamen wie Arnavutköy («Albanerdorf»)"
  2. ^ a b Coşkun, Burhanettin; Yolcu, Tuğba (28–29 April 2016). "Küreselleşen dünyada göç sorunları ve Türkiye'nin bölgesel rolü [Migration issues in the globalizing world and Turkey's regional role]". Aralik University: 97. Retrieved 12 June 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) "İlk defa Türkiye'ye Fatih Sultan Mehmet zamanında getirilen Arnavutlar, 1468 senesinde İstanbul’un Arnavutköy semtine yerleştirilmişlerdir. Arnavutköy, 1468 yılında Arnavut göçmenler tarafından oluşturulmuştur. Kültürümüzün temel taşlarından olan semtlere (Arnavutköy, Arnavutkaldırımı)"
  3. ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  4. TÜİK
    . Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  5. ISBN 9789752307346.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )
  6. doi:10.26513/tocd.312245
    . "Some examples of prominent migrations such as migration of Albanians who were placed in Arnavutköy in 1468"
  7. Reşat Ekrem Koçu
    , İstanbul Ansiklopedisi, vol. 2 (İstanbul 1958-1971), p. 1.041
  8. ^ Papastratis Th., Γειτονιές του Βοσπόρου [Neighborhoods of Bosporus], Athens, 2003, p. 72
  9. ISBN 0847819892.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link
    )

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arnavutköy.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arnavutköy&oldid=1183549305"