Vişnezade is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of

Beşiktaş Beşiktaş () is a district and municipality of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 18 km2 and its population is 175,190 (2022). It is located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and ...

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. Its population is 7,959 as of 2023. ''Vişne'' translates to "

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" from Turkish and the neighborhood is named after İzzeti Mehmet Efendi (1629-1681), an Ottoman statesman nicknamed ''Vişnezade'' who was known to cultivate sour cherry in the place of this neighborhood. Vişnezade is the southernmost neighborhood of Beşiktaş district.

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district is to the southwest, Sinanpaşa (Beşiktaş centrum) is to the north east and the

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is to the southeast. It includes multiple quarters, such as Akaretler, Dolmabahçe,

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, and Valideçeşme. Vişnezade includes important structures such as

Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Palace ( ) is a 19th-century imperial palace located in Istanbul, Turkey, along the European shore of the Bosporus, which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922. Histor ...

, the Akaretler rowhouses,

Beşiktaş Stadium Beşiktaş Stadyumu (currently known as the Tüpraş Stadyumu for sponsorship reasons) is an all-seater stadium, all-seater, multi-purpose stadium in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is the home ground of Beşiktaş J.K., Beşikt ...

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Maçka Campus, Maçka Park, and the mosque which bears the name of the neighborhood.

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