Çürüklük is a small neighborhood in
Kasımpaşa in the
Beyoğlu
Beyoğlu (, ota, بكاوغلی, script=Arab) is a district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city (historic peninsula of Constantinople) by the Golden Horn. It was known as the region of Pera (Πέρα, meani ...
municipality on the European side of
Istanbul
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,
Turkey
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.
The word ''çürüklük'' means "rottenness," "garbage dump," or "graveyard for executed criminals and paupers." The area is said to have been built on the site of a
Byzantine
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garbage dump
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that stretched from
Elmadağ in
Şişli
Şişli () is one of the 39 districts of Istanbul, Turkey. Located on the European side of the city, it is bordered by Beşiktaş to the east, Sarıyer to the north, Eyüp and Kağıthane to the west, and Beyoğlu to the south. In 2009, Şi ...
to Tepebaşı in Beyoğlu (near the present British Consulate).
Çürüklük is one of the historic
Romani people in Turkey
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(Gypsy) neighborhoods of Istanbul, along with
Selamsız
Selamsız is a quarter in Üsküdar district on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey. It corresponds more or less to the current officially recognized neighborhoods of Selamiali and Muratreis. These neighborhoods are bounded on the north by Sulta ...
,
Sulukule
Sulukule (literally: "Water tower") is a historic quarter in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is within the area of Istanbul’s historic peninsula, adjacent to the western part of the city walls. The area has historically been occupied ...
,
Küçükbakkalköy Küçükbakkalköy is a neighborhood in the municipality of Ataşehir on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey. It is bounded on the northwest, north, and northeast by the Atatürk neighborhood, on the southeast by the Kayışdağı neighborhood, on ...
,
Tophane
Tophane () 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 t ...
, Çayırboyu, and Lonca.
["Oyuncu Kollarından Sulukule Evlerine." ''Star'' (newspaper), 15 April 2007. Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20110720015527/http://www.stargazete.com/mobil/pazar/oyuncu-kollarindan-sulukule-evlerine-haber-67785.mob]
References
Beyoğlu
Quarters in Istanbul
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