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Moda, Kadıköy
Moda is a quarter in Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. Moda is located on a peninsula between the center of Kadıköy and the Kurbağalıdere creek on the Anatolian part of Istanbul. The place became an outstanding residential area only after the 1870s, when wealthy non-Muslims settled down there by building their own mansions. It is a multi-cultural place with Armenian, Greek and Anglican church buildings, Georgian art house, theatres, French Lycée Saint-Joseph (1870) Kadıköy Anatolian High School (1955), old curiosity shops, fish and international food restaurants. Moda is served by the 2003-established Kadıköy-Moda Nostalgia Tram line. Notable buildings and structures in Moda are: * Süreyya Opera House, 1927-opened opera house, * Moda Marine Club (1935), * Moda Pier, 1917-built, 2022-restored passenger ferry pier. ;Historic mansions * Agah Bey Mansion, * Antipa Mansion, * Bursalı Riza Bey Mansion, * Dowson Mansion, * Mahmut Ata Bey Mansion, * Cemil Cem Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Regions Of Turkey
The geographical regions of Turkey comprise seven regions ( tr, bölge) which were originally defined at the country's First Geography Congress in 1941.Ali Yiğit, "Geçmişten Günümüze Türkiye'yi Bölgelere Ayıran Çalışmalar ve Yapılması Gerekenler", ''Ankara Üniversitesi Türkiye Coğrafyası Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi, IV. Ulural Coğrafya Sempozyumu, "Avrupa Birliği Sürecindeki Türkiye'de Bölgesel Farklılıklar"''pp. 34–35. These seven regions are subdivided into twenty one sections ( tr, bölüm), which are further split into numerous areas ( tr, yöre) as defined by microclimate and bounded by local geographic formations. "Regions" as defined in this context are merely for geographic, demographic, and economic purposes, and do not refer to an administrative division. Regions and subregions * Aegean Region **Aegean Section *** Edremit Area *** Bakirçay Area *** Gediz Area *** Izmir Area ***Küçük Menderes Area *** Büyük Menderes Area *** M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycée Saint-Joseph, Istanbul
Lycée Saint-Joseph ( tr, İstanbul Özel Saint-Joseph Fransız Lisesi) is a private high school located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a French school founded in 1870. Classes are taught in Turkish, French, and English. Fenerbahçe S.K. was formed by students of this high school. History This school was founded by Fran Society (Lasalle Institute). Fran Society (Lasalle Institute) was established by Saint Jean-Baptiste when it first came to Turkey in 1841. Pensionnat Saint-Joseph, a school for boys, was first established in Pera (now Beyoğlu) in 1857. Its successor Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes was established in 1860. At one time it moved to a rental property in Moda, Kadıköy but in 1864 it returned to Pera as it could no longer occupy the building, as the owner had sold it to someone else. Sultan Abdulaziz gave permission for the school to build its own building in 1864, but he had to issue another declaration doing the same in 1870 as the original declaration disappeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barış Manço
Mehmet Barış Manço (born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço; 2 January 1943 – 1 February 1999), better known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, composer, actor, television producer and show host. Beginning his musical career while attending Galatasaray High School, he was a pioneer of rock music in Turkey and one of the founders of the Anatolian rock genre. Manço composed around 200 songs and is among the best-selling Turkish artists to date and the winner of the most awards. Many of his songs were translated into other languages including English, French, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, and German. Through his TV programme, ''7'den 77'ye'' (''From 7 to 77''), Manço travelled the world and visited many countries. He remains one of Turkey's most popular public figures long after his death. Early life and career Barış Manço was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey on 2 January 1943. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whittall Mansion, Moda
Whittall Mansion ( tr, Whittall Köşkü) is an Ottoman-era mansion in Istanbul, Turkey, built in 1900. Today, it is a historic house museum dedicated to rock musician Barış Manço (1943–1999). Background James William Whittall, later Sir William Whittall, was a British businessman, whose ancestors settled in Smyrna, today İzmir, in 1809. He married fellow Anglo-Ottoman Edith Anne Barker in Buca, Smyrna on 9 April 1862. His wife gave birth to four children, Edith Mary, Ethel Marianne, Frederick Edwin and Linda Frances. After working with his two brothers in the family-owned firm C. Whittall and Co. in Smyrna, he founded his own company in Constantinople, today Istanbul, in 1873. Mansion The Whittall Mansion is located on Yusuf Kamil Paşa St. in the Moda quarter of Kadıköy district in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1870, J.W. Whittall purchased a large property in Moda, Kadıköy stretching on a hillside between Moda Avenue and the sea shore of the Marmara Sea. He built a mansion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tubini Mansion
Tubini Mansion ( tr, Tubini Köşkü) is an Ottoman era mansion in Istanbul, Turkey. Background Bernard Tubini (1826–1889) with his parents and siblings, joining close members of their wealthy banking family, the Genoese Tubini family of Chios and of Byzantine heritage, immigrated from the Greek island Syros to Constantinople, today Istanbul. They lived in the beginning in Pera, and then moved to around Rumelihisarı, both on the European side of the Ottoman Empire's capital. Finally, they settled in Moda, Kadıköy on the Asian part of the city by building a mansion as a pioneer in a then rural area. He was a banker in Galata, who was involved in financial businesses with the Sultan, via the Ottoman Bank. He also managed an important furniture business in Beşiktaş, where 400 people worked. Mansion Tubini Mansion is located at Mühürdar St. in Moda quarter of Kadıköy district in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built on a ground in the 1850s. It has a basement, two floors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayşegül Sarıca
Ayşegül Sarıca (28 May 1935 – 10 March 2023) was a Turkish concert pianist, pedagogue. Life Ayşegül Sarıca was born into an Ottoman military family in Istanbul, Turkey in 1935. Ahmet İzzet Pasha (1864–1937), one of the last Ottoman grand viziers was her maternal grandfather. In 1955, she married Nejat Diyarbekirli and gave birth to a son named Osman and a daughter Zeynep. Music training Prior to the World War II, many German people had escaped from Nazi Germany and emigrated to Turkey. Gertrude Isaac, a pianist was one of them, and she gave Sarıca piano lessons when she was as young as five years old. She continued her study in the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. There, she became a student of Ferdi Statzer. In 1944, while she was only nine years old, she gave her first recital in Kadıköy Halkevi, Istanbul. In 1951, she went to Paris, France, to study at the National Concervatory of Paris. Lucette Descaves and Pierre Pasquier were her teachers. In 1953, she gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arif Sarıca Mansion
Arif Sarıca Mansion ( tr, Moda Arif Sarıca Köşkü) is an Ottoman-era mansion in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 1903. Background Arif Sarıca, also known as Arif Pasha, was born in Euboea ( tr, Eğriboz) as a member of a family with military roots. He was promoted to one of the court physicians of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II () at the Yıldız Palace after he cured the sultan. His brother Ragıp Pasha served as aide de camp to the sultan. Mansion Arif Sarıca Mansion, also called as "Apartment Sarıca", is located at Moda Avenue 147 in Moda quarter of Kadıköy district in Istanbul, Turkey. The place Moda in Kadıköy became an outstanding residential area only after the 1870s, when first wealthy non-Muslim families, like the bankers Lorando and Tubini and later the Whittall and Lafontain, settled down by building their own mansions. Built in 1903, its architect was a Ottoman Greek C. Pappa. The building is situated within a large garden surrounded with a -high mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferries In Istanbul
The city of Istanbul is at a geographic crossroads, straddling Europe and Asia Minor, and is divided by a sea lane called the Bosphorus Strait, which joins the Black Sea in the northeast and the Marmara Sea in the southwest. This strait has played a key role in the history of the city. Operator Companies Istanbul Sea Buses The city's largest ferry operator, Istanbul Sea Buses (İstanbul Deniz Otobusleri, İDO), runs a combination of all-passenger and car-and-passenger ferries to ports on both sides of the Bosphorus, as far as the Black Sea., with additional destinations around the Sea of Marmara. Until it was privatized in April 2011, İDO ran the largest municipal ferry operation in the world. Turyol Another smaller ferry company, Turyol, provides frequent services on routes from Eminönü, Kabataş, Beyoğlu and Karaköy to ports at Üsküdar, Haydarpaşa and Kadıköy, among others. History Boats have traversed the waters of the Bosphorus for millennia and until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moda Pier
Moda, MoDA or MODA may refer to: Animals * Moda, a common name of ''Potorous platyops'', the Broad-faced potoroo Geography * Moda, Kadıköy, a quarter in Kadıköy district ofIstanbul, Turkey People * Moda Fincher, a broadcaster and member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame * Mo’da language * Moda is a family name of the family originated from Bhiwani, Haryana, India. They are basically tradesmen, merchants, and belong to single gotra of Agarwal Community of India. Nowadays many people from the family occupy high position in Corporates and Government. Most of the families have divided and migrated to all over India, some also to foreign countries. Entertainment * Moda Records, a record label *Modà, Italian rock group Business * Andrea Moda, an Italian fashion company ** Andrea Moda Formula, a defunct racing team, named after Andrea Moda * Moda FC, a defunct association football club in Turkey * Moda Center, an indoor sports arena in Portland, Oregon, USA * Slang for the drug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süreyya Opera House
Süreyya Opera House, also called Süreyya Cultural Center ( tr, Süreyya Operası or Süreyya Kültür Merkezi), is an opera hall located at Gen. Asım Gündüz Avenue No: 29, in the Bahariye quarter of the Kadıköy district in Istanbul, Turkey. The building was designed by Ottoman Armenian architect Kegham KavafyanCengiz ÇandarErmeniler olmasaydı, İstanbul İstanbul olur muydu? ''Radikal'', December 10, 2010. by the order of a Deputy for Istanbul, Süreyya İlmen. It was originally established in 1927 as the first musical theatre on the Anatolian part of Istanbul. However, due to the lack of appropriate facilities and equipment at the theatre, operettas weren't staged until 2007. The venue was rather used as a movie theatre until the building underwent a functional restoration and reopened as an opera house on December 14, 2007. History Süreyya Pasha ( later Süreyya İlmen) started the construction of the building in 1924 to meet the need of a venue for cultural and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T3 Line (Kadıköy-Moda Nostalgia Tramway)
T3 or T-3 may refer to: Medicine * T3, in endocrinology, triiodothyronine, a thyroid hormone ** Polar T3 syndrome, characterized by low levels of that hormone in polar explorers * T3 spinal nerve * Third thoracic vertebrae * An electrode site, in the 10–20 EEG system Vehicles and transportation * Bankstown Line, a rail service in Sydney, Australia, numbered T3 * Eastern Airways (IATA code) * Fuji T-3, a Japanese primary military trainer aircraft * T3, a model of the Oslo Metro OS T1000 train * Île-de-France tramway Line 3, in Paris * Tatra T3, a tramcar * Trager-Bierens T-3 Alibi, a glider * T3 transit lane, a type of high-occupancy vehicle lane in Australia * Volkswagen Type 2 (T3), the third generation of the Volkswagen Transporter van * T3 tanker, a ship class * Slingsby T-3A Firefly, a former training aircraft of the United States Air Force * T3 Road (Zambia), a road in Zambia * Heathrow Terminal 3 Entertainment * '' T3: Alliance'', an investigative-public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadıköy Anatolian High School
Kadıköy Anatolian High School ( tr, Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi), also commonly known as Kadıköy Maarif College, abbreviated Kadıköy Maarif or KAL, is one of the oldest, most prestigious Anatolian High Schools and internationally renowned high schools of Turkey; located in Moda, Istanbul. The education languages are Turkish and English. Secondary foreign language offered is German. History The original building, which unfortunately exists no more, dates back to before World War I and was built by the Franciscan Capuchin Order. The building was inhabited by the followers of this sect for many years. After the National Ministry of Education decided to open a high school in Kadikoy district, negotiations that lasted many years took place between the ministry and the Capuchins. In 1955 the school opened as Kadıköy Maarif. In 1968 a second building was added to the school which served as a dormitory. In 1976 and 1977 two more buildings were added. For many years it was ranked as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
