Ayvansaray
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Ayvansaray is a picturesque neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fatih, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 15,747 (2022). It is on the Golden Horn, between Balat and Eyüpsultan. It lies inside what was the walled city on Constantinople and later of İstanbul and corresponds to the old quarter of Blachernae (Vlachérnai in Greek).
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- Instance of
- mahalle
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Fatih
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 15200
- Area
- 0.62
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Body of water
- Golden Horn
- Image
- İstanbul - Ayvansaray - Mart 2013 - r2.JPG
- Dialing code
- 212
- Licence plate code
- 34
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- Commons category
- Ayvansaray
- postal code
- 34087
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Istanbul Subregion
- male population
- 8188
- Turkey neighborhood ID
- 99146
- female population
- 7919
- architectural style
- Ottoman architecture
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Ayvansaray is a picturesque neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fatih, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 15,747 (2022). It is on the Golden Horn, between Balat and Eyüpsultan. It lies inside what was the walled city on Constantinople and later of İstanbul and corresponds to the old quarter of Blachernae (Vlachérnai in Greek).
The name Ayvansaray comes from the Persian ایوانسرای (Iwan + Saray) and probably means "Veranda Palace", a name that hearkens back to the Palace of Alexios I Komnenos (now lost), which was part of the complex of Blachernae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ayvansaray” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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