Eğitim is a neighborhood (''

mahalle is an Arabic word variously translated as district, quarter, ward, or neighborhood in many parts of the Arab world, the Balkans, Western Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and nearby nations. History Historically, mahallas were autonomous social ins ...

'') in the

Kadıköy Kadıköy () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district on the Asian side of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 25 km2, and its population is 467,919 (2023). It is a large and populous area in the Asian si ...

district of

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Description

Eğitim is located on the

Anatolia Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

n side of Istanbul. It is bordered on the north by the neighborhoods of Hasanpaşa, Fikirtepe, and Dumlupınar, on the east by the neighborhood of Merdivenköy, on the south by the neighborhoods of Feneryolu and

Zühtüpaşa Zühtüpaşa is a neighborhood (''mahalle'') in the district of Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey. Description Zühtüpaşa is bordered on the north by the Kadıköy neighborhoods of Osmanağa, Hasanpaşa, and Eğitim, on the east by the Kadıköy ne ...

, and on the west again by the neighborhood of Hasanpaşa. Eğitim's population is 13,559 (2020). Much of the eastern half of the neighborhood is taken up by educational institutions, thus apparently the name of the neighborhood, Eğitim ( Turkish for "education").

History

The Eğitim area was home to a

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

settlement that was part of the Fikirtepe Culture. No settlements, however, are known from the

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and Ottoman periods. Until the 1950s, the only building was an Ottoman hunting lodge, with the rest of the area consisting of pastures and meadows. In the 1950s, many people from rural Turkey began migrating to Istanbul and building shanties (''

gecekondu , meaning 'put up overnight' (plural ), is a Turkish language, Turkish word meaning a house put up quickly illegal building, without proper permissions, a Squatting, squatter's house, and by extension, a shanty or shack. is a neighborhood made o ...

'') in the area. Because of the rapid development, a muhtar affiliated with Kadıköy District was appointed in 1965. In 1975, the area was divided into three neighborhoods: Fikirtepe, Dumlupınar, and Eğitim. In the 1980s, municipal services such as roads, water lines, and electricity were brought to the area, and many of the shanties were demolished and replaced with multistory concrete apartment buildings.

Major institutions

The easternmost end of the neighborhood is occupied by the Göztepe Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yalçın City Hospital, formerly the Göztepe Education and Research Hospital. Directly to the west of the hospital is the Göztepe Campus of

Marmara University Marmara University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university, named after the Sea of Marmara, was founded as a university in 1982. However, its ...

. To the north of Marmara University is the Istanbul Atatürk Science High School, Turkey's second oldest science high school.

Historic sites

Fikirtepe Mound ('' höyük''), a Neolithic settlement, was located near the center of the neighborhood, but has now been built over. Near the western end of the neighborhood is the

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Murat IV Murad IV (, ''Murād-ı Rābiʿ''; , was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad IV was born in Constantinople, the son of Sul ...

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('' çeşme''), all that remains of the Murat IV Mansion ('' köşk''). Within the Marmara University campus is the Murat V Hunting Lodge

Hamam A hammam (), also often called a Turkish bath by Westerners, is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world. It is a prominent feature in the Islamic culture, culture of the Muslim world and was inherited ...

. This building, which was

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in 2017, is all that remains of the complex that included the 1861 Kurbağalıdere Mansion (''köşk'') and the 1864 Murat V Hunting Lodge ('' av köşkü'').

References

{{Kadıköy District Neighbourhoods of Kadıköy