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Üsküdar American Academy
Üsküdar American Academy ( Turkish: ''Üsküdar Amerikan Lisesi'', ) often abbreviated as Üsküdar American or UAA, is a private coeducational American high school located in Üsküdar borough of Istanbul, Turkey. The school was established by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1876. Today, it is owned and administered by the Health and Education Foundation ( Turkish: ''Sağlık ve Eğitim Vakfı'', or ''SEV'') along with other former ABCFM institutions in Turkey. History American Academy for Girls was founded in 1876 in Bahçecik, a town in the city of Kocaeli by the Congregational missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The school was moved to Adapazarı where it remained until World War I.. The site in , an area of Üsküdar, a neighbourhood on the Asian part of İstanbul, was originally the American College for Girls. ACG vacated the Baglarbaşı site in 1914 and moved to Arnavutköy, a neighborhood on the Europe ...
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American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian mission, Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed traditions such as Presbyterianism in the United States, Presbyterians, Congregationalism, Congregationalists, and Reformed Church in the United States, German Reformed churches. Before 1870, the ABCFM consisted of Protestants of several denominations, including Congregationalists and Presbyterians. However, due to secessions caused by the issue of slavery and by the fact that New School Presbyterian-affiliated missionaries had begun to support the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, after 1870 the ABCFM became a Congregationalist body. The American Board (as it was frequently known) continued to operate as a largely ...
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American International Schools In Turkey
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High Schools In Istanbul
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Educational Institutions Established In 1876
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Education In The Ottoman Empire
In the Ottoman Empire each, and every Millet (Ottoman Empire), millet (religious group) established a schooling system serving its members.Strauss, , 9781317118442. Google Books]PT194PT195
Education, therefore, was largely divided on ethnic and religious lines: few non-Muslims attended schools for Muslim students and vice versa. Most institutions that did serve all ethnic and religious groups taught in French or in other languages.Strauss, , 9781317118442. Google Books]
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Education stages

The first stage of elementary education and teaching in the Ottoman Empire has been called as Sibyan Schools (Sibyan Mektepleri). The education system of Ottomans founded on Sıbyan Sc ...
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List Of High Schools In Turkey
The following is a list of high schools in Turkey, categorised by province: Adana *Adana Fen Lisesi *Seyhan Rotary Anadolu Lisesi *Hümeyra Ökte Kız Anadolu Lisesi Ankara *Ankara Fen Lisesi *Ankara (Anadolu) Lisesi *Ankara Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi *Ankara Atatürk Lisesi *Ankara Elementary/High School *Ankara Milli Piyango Anadolu Lisesi *Gazi Anadolu Lisesi *Mehmet Emin Resulzade Anadolu Lisesi *TED Ankara Koleji *TVF Fine Arts and Sports High School *Ayrancı Anadolu Lisesi *Dr. Binnaz Ege-Dr. Rıdvan Ege Anadolu Lisesi *Hacı Ömer Tarman Anadolu Lisesi *Betül Can Anadolu Lisesi *Ankara Pursaklar Fen Lisesi *Cumhuriyet Fen Lisesi *Özkent Akbilek Fen Lisesi *Polatlı TOBB Fen Lisesi *Ankara Türk Telekom Sosyal Bilimler Lisesi Antalya *Aksu Anadolu Öğretmen Lisesi Balıkesir * Balıkesir Lisesi * Sırrı Yırcalı Anadolu Lisesi * İstanbulluoğlu Sosyal Bilimler Lisesi * Ülkü Muharrem Ertaş Anadolu Lisesi Bursa * Tofaş Fen Lisesi * Bursa Anadolu Lisesi * Ulubatlı H ...
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Koç School
The Koç School () is a private coeducational school in Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey founded by Vehbi Koç, one of Turkey's wealthiest businessmen. The school comprises a high school that pioneered the International Baccalaureate, IB program in Turkey and an elementary school. Prospective students gain admission into the high school based on their achievements on the nationwide examination for high schools in Turkey. General information Koç School is a high and elementary school fully accredited by the Turkish Ministry of Education, European Council of International Schools (ECIS), International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), Independent schools UK, England, Scotland, Wales & NI and international schools worldwide (ISBI) and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). It offers boarding for five or seven days a week for students of classes between high school prep to 12th grade at its dorms on its campus. History Founded in 1988 by Vehbi Koç Founda ...
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İzmir
İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had a population of 2,938,292 (in eleven urban districts), while İzmir Province had a total population of 4,493,242. Its built-up (or metro) area was home to 3,264,154 inhabitants. It extends along the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir and inland to the north across the Gediz River Delta; to the east along an alluvial plain created by several small streams; and to slightly more rugged terrain in the south. İzmir has more than 3,000 years of recorded history, recorded urban history, and Yeşilova Höyük, up to 8,500 years of history as a human settlement since the Neolithic period. In classical antiquity, the city was known as Smyrna – a name which remained in use in English and various other languages until around 1930, when governmen ...
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American Collegiate Institute
Founded in 1878, the American Collegiate Institute (), referred to by the acronym ACI, is a Private school, private Mixed-sex education, co-educational Secondary school, high school in Goztepe, İzmir, Turkey. ACI was founded, and is now run, by the charity foundation ''Sağlık ve Eğitim Vakfı'' (''SEV''). The school's motto is "Enter to learn, depart to serve", and the school song is "Hail Alma Mater Fair".American Collegiate Institute. , American Collegiate Institute Official Website in English, 2010. History The American Collegiate Institute, the oldest private high school in İzmir, was founded in 1878. At that time, İzmir, now a metropolitan city on the western coast of Turkey, was known as SmyrnaAksoy, Yasar. Smyrna - İzmir Efsaneden Gercege. İzmir: İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2002. In its early years, the school was an American/Christian missionary school that only accepted girls as students.American Collegiate Institute. 2010-2011 Ogretim Yili Veli Ogrenci El Kit ...
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Sabancı Family
The Sabancı family is one of the wealthiest families in Turkey. The family's main business entity was founded by Hacı Ömer Sabancı in the 1930s. Hacı Ömer Sabancı, the progenitor of the Sabancı family, moved from his native Kayseri to Adana in the early 1920s. The family's wealth came from the business ventures established by Hacı Ömer Sabancı in the 1930s, starting with his cotton trading and textile enterprises in Adana, Turkey. After moving from Kayseri to Adana in the early 1920s, Hacı Ömer began as a laborer in cotton plantations before leveraging his skills to start a modest commercial enterprise. Over time, his sons, particularly Sakıp Sabancı and his brothers, built upon this foundation, establishing Sabancı Holding, which controls over 60 companies across diverse sectors including financial services (notably Akbank), energy, cement, retail, and industrial sectors. The conglomerate's partnerships with global firms like Bridgestone, DuPont, and Carrefour furt ...
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Özdemir Sabancı
Özdemir Sabancı (1941 – January 9, 1996) was a Turkish businessman and a second generation member of the Sabancı family. Biography He was born in Adana, Turkey. After finishing high school at the Tarsus American College in Tarsus, province Mersin, he received his B.A. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK. Later, he obtained a master's degree in the same discipline in Switzerland. Returning to Turkey, he worked in the Sabancı Holding and soon founded and further developed the synthetic fibres producer Sasa, one of the biggest industrial companies of the group. Under his leadership, Sabancı Holding entered into the automotive sector. He established several joint-venture projects with major Japanese companies including production of Mitsubishi coaches and trucks, Komatsu construction equipment, loaders and forklifts. In 1990, he paved the way to produce Toyota cars in Turkey as a consequence of th ...
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