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thumb|Horhor Fountain thumb|Aksaray Metro Station thumb|Kıztaşı İskenderpaşa is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fatih, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 12,024 (2022). It is in the European part of Istanbul. It is considered one of the most visited areas of Istanbul, as it is located near the shopping center of the city.

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Instance of
neighborhood
Country
Turkey
Located in
Fatih
Continent
Europe
Population
11316
Area
0.42
Image
Horhor Fountain (Simitçi Şakir Street).jpg
Dialing code
212
Licence plate code
34
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postal code
34080
located in the statistical territorial entity
Istanbul Subregion
Turkey neighborhood ID
40397
male population
7105
female population
6268
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thumb|Horhor Fountain thumb|Aksaray Metro Station thumb|Kıztaşı İskenderpaşa is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Fatih, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 12,024 (2022). It is in the European part of Istanbul. It is considered one of the most visited areas of Istanbul, as it is located near the shopping center of the city.

== Sites == Historia Shopping and Life Center: an indoor shopping center with a fountain, a variety of shops, restaurants, a cinema and a food court. Kıztaşı(Maidenstone): located in the middle of a small square in Fatih district, the structure consists of an 8.75 m high column erected in two pieces of red-gray Egyptian marble brought from Aswan (Syene) and a 2.35 m high quadrilateral pedestal. Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque: a grand Ottoman imperial mosque built by Pertevniyal Valide Sultan, the wife of Sultan Mahmut II and the mother of Sultan Abdulaziz. Saraçhane Archaeological Park: the artifacts displayed in the Sarachkhane Archaeological Park were discovered during the excavation of a new boulevard, the construction of which began on the orders of the then Prime Minister Adnan Menderes in the late 1950s.

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