Kemerburgaz is a village in the Eyüp district of

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, 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 (, 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

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( 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-

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

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), #48K (Kemerburgaz-Ağaçlı Köyü), #48KA (Kemerburgaz-

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

References

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