Kazlıçeşme, Zeytinburnu
Kazlıçeşme is a neighbourhood () in the municipality and district of Zeytinburnu, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 4,844 (2022). Chartered in 1957, it is the least populous neighborhood of Zeytinburnu. The locality took its name from the historic fountain () with a relief goose () figure below the fountain's inscription, which dates it back to Hijri year AH 953 (AD 1537). Stretching between Bakırköy district in the southwest and Fatih district in the northeast, where it borders to the historic Walls of Constantinople, the area covers the entire coast line of Zeytinburnu at the Sea of Marmara. The long shoreline road Kennedy Avenue connecting Sirkeci with Bakırköy runs through Kazlıçeşme. History Kazlıçeşme was assigned for slaughterhouse, tannery and chandlery by a decret of Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (reigned 1444–46 and 1451–81) soon after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Kazlıçeşme was chosen as a place outside the city walls du ...
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