Rumelifeneri (named after the lighthouse

Rumeli Feneri __NOTOC__ Rumeli Feneri, also Türkeli Feneri, a historical lighthouse still in use, is located on the European side of the Bosporus Strait's Black Sea entrance in Istanbul. Etymology Rumeli (or Rumelia) is a former name for the Ottoman territ ...

) is a village in

İstanbul 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_i ...

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Geography

Rumelifeneri is in

Sarıyer Sarıyer () is the northernmost district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European side of the city. It consists of the neighbourhoods of Rumelifeneri, Tarabya, Yeniköy, İstinye, Emirgan and Rumelihisarı. Sarıyer also administers the Black Sea c ...

intracity 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 ...

. At it is a coastal village located at the extreme northwest (i.e.,

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an side) of the

Bosphorous The Bosporus Strait (; grc, Βόσπορος ; tr, İstanbul Boğazı 'Istanbul strait', colloquially ''Boğaz'') or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern Tu ...

Strait. It is a suburb of

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

. The distance to Sarıyer is and to the center of Greater Istanbul is about . The population of Rumelifeneri is 2,337 as of 2010.

History

Archaeological evidence in the area of the village dates back to the late

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

era, although a now lost Greek inscription dating to the 3rd century CE was formerly on display at the Greek cemetery of the village. The village is named after a local lighthouse, which is attested in

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s and literary sources since at least the 15th century.

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, who visited it in the mid-16th century, described it as octagonal, and ascribed to it a Byzantine origin. Its Greek inhabitants named it ''Phanarion'' (Φανάριον, "lighthouse"), often in the diminutive ''Phanarakion'' (Φαναράκιον). In 1768, a fortress was built by a Greek engineer for the

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(Rumeli Fener Kalesi), possibly on older foundations. It is now in ruins. Rumelifeneri was involved was the rebellion of

Kabakçı Mustafa Kabakçı Mustafa (1770?-1808) was a rebel leader who caused the delay of Ottoman reformation in the early 19th century. Yamaks and Kabakçı Yamaks were a special class of soldiers who were responsible in defending Bosphorous against Cossack p ...

.A page about Istanbul Vicinity
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, the village was inhabited by Greeks—some 900 inhabitants in the late 19th century—and had a church dedicated to St. George (possibly built on a Byzantine predecessor), and the '' hagiasma'' (sacred well) known as ''tis Tsirpinas'' (της Τσίρπινας).

Economy

Rumelifeneri is a fishermen's village. But it is very close to Istanbul, which makes the village a place of

seafood Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...

restaurants specialized for daily excursion of Istanbul citizens.

References

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