Küçükbakkalköy is a neighborhood (''

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'') in the municipality and district of

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. Its population is 30,050 (2022). The neighborhood is on the

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n side of

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. It is bounded on the north and northeast by the Ataşehir neighborhood of Atatürk; on the southeast by the Ataşehir neighborhoods of İnönü, Kayışdağı, and İçerenköy; on the south by the Ataşehir neighborhood of İçerenköy; and on the northwest by the Ataşehir neighborhoods of Barbaros and Atatürk.

Name

The name Küçükbakkalköy means "little grocery village" ( Turkish: '' küçük'' + '' bakkal'' + ''

köy Köy is the word for "village" in Western Oghuz languages that are geographically western, such as Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Crimean Tatar. It is a loanword from Persian ''gūy'' (or probably more likely ''kūy''), which originally means "pat ...

''). The name is said to come from the market held in the

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village that formerly existed in the area.Küçükbakkalköy Mahallesi
, ''Ataşehir Belediyesi.''. Accessed 28 Dec. 2014. The neighborhood was referred to as Μικροῦ Βακάλ-κιοϊ (Mikrou Vakal-kioi) in an 1823 history, as Πακαλ-κιοι (Pakal-kioi) on an 1875 Greek gravestone, as Micro-Bakal-keuy in an 1878 population report, and as Kutchuq Bakal-Keuy in an 1899 article on Ottoman cemeteries.

History

The neighborhood is said to date from

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

times, with the neighborhood's Acısu Çeşmesi ("bitter water fountain") thought to be part of an old ayazma. Küçükbakkalköy is one of the historic

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("Gypsy") neighborhoods of Istanbul, along with

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, Çürüklük,

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, Çayırboyu, and Lonca. In 2006, there were reported to be 240 Romani households in the neighborhood.

References

External links

İstanbul Şehir Rehberi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kucukbakkalkoy Neighbourhoods of Ataşehir Romani communities in Turkey Former Greek towns in Turkey Greeks in Turkey