Kemerburgaz is a village in the Eyüp district of

Istanbul Province ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_in ...

, Turkey.

Toponymy

Kemerburgaz is a historic settlement located southwest of

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between the aqueducts Kurt Kemeri ("Wolf's Aqueduct") and Uzun Kemer ("Long Aqueduct"). During the

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era ( 330–1453), its name was Pyrgos ( el, Πύργος, for 'tower' or 'bastion'). After the conquest of Istanbul in 1453, it was renamed , the

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translation for bastion. Local people changed its name to , a

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of ('aqueduct') and , when the renowned architect

Mimar Sinan Mimar Sinan ( ota, معمار سينان, translit=Mi'mâr Sinân, , ) ( 1488–1490 – 17 July 1588) also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, ("Sinan Agha the Grand Architect" or "Grand Sinan") was the chief Ottoman architect ( tr, l ...

( 1489/1490–1588) repaired the ruined Byzantine aqueducts and built new waterways in the area.

Demographics

The

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structure of the village remained quite unchanged during the Ottoman era after the conquest (1453–1923). According to the first

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conducted after the

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, the village had 360 Greek-origin and ten Turkish households. The Turkish residents were immigrants from Bulgaria during the

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. During the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey, Turkish people from

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were settled in the village replacing the people of Greek origin, who were sent in exchange to Greece, where they founded the settlement of Neos Pyrgos (New Pyrgos) in North

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Access

İETT city bus lines #48 ( Göktürk-

Mecidiyeköy Mecidiyeköy is a heavily built-up residential and business neighbourhood in the Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey squeezed in between the Fulya, Kuştepe, Gültepe, Esentepe, and Gülbahar neighbourhoods. In 2021 its estimated population was ...

, #48A (Göktürk- Kazlıçeşme), #48E (Göktürk-

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), #48K (Kemerburgaz-Ağaçlı Köyü), #48KA (Kemerburgaz- Arnavutköy), #48L (Göktürk- 4. Levent Metro), and #48P (Kemerburgaz-Akpınar) serve Kemerburgaz from various locations of Istanbul.

References

Villages in Istanbul Province Eyüp Populated coastal places in Turkey {{Istanbul-geo-stub