Rumelikavağı
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Rumelikavağı, also known as Rumeli Kavağı, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sarıyer, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,657 (2022). "Rumeli" is the Turkish name for Thrace, and "Kavak" means "control post" in Ottoman Turkish referring to the strategic position of the location on the Bosporus. The ferry pier which is the center of the neighborhood is at .
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- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Sarıyer
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 3560
- Area
- 4.5
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Body of water
- Bosporus Strait
- Image
- Rumeli Kavagi.JPG
- Dialing code
- 212
- Licence plate code
- 34
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- Rumeli Kavağı
- postal code
- 34450
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Istanbul Subregion
- Turkey neighborhood ID
- 40677
- male population
- 1810
- female population
- 1798
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Rumelikavağı, also known as Rumeli Kavağı, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sarıyer, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,657 (2022). "Rumeli" is the Turkish name for Thrace, and "Kavak" means "control post" in Ottoman Turkish referring to the strategic position of the location on the Bosporus. The ferry pier which is the center of the neighborhood is at .
Formerly, it was a small fishing village. In the 17th century, a castle was built to check Cossack naval assaults from the Black Sea. In 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), a part of the immigrants from the Russian occupied provinces settled in Rumelikavağı. Up until the 1960s, most of Rumelikavağı was a restricted zone by military.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rumelikavağı” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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