Tophane
Sign in to saveTophane () (lit. "Armoury") is a quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, running downhill from Galata to the shore of the Bosphorus where it joins up with Karaköy to the southwest and Fındıklı to the northeast.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tophane
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Quarter
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tophane and the Imperial.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Tophane skyline seen from Bosphorus
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Turkey Istanbul
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Marmara
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Istanbul
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Beyoğlu
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone1
- TRT
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +3
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 34425
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Population
- Galataport
- References
Tophane () (lit. "Armoury") is a quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, running downhill from Galata to the shore of the Bosphorus where it joins up with Karaköy to the southwest and Fındıklı to the northeast.
In the Ottoman era, it was the city's first industrial zone.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tophane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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