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Salacak is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Üsküdar, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 9,522 (2022). It is located on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, to the south of the historic center of Üsküdar.

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Instance of
mahalle
Country
Turkey
Located in
Üsküdar
Population
9358
Area
0.44
Body of water
Bosporus Strait
Image
Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey - panoramio (61).jpg
Dialing code
216
Licence plate code
34
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Turkey neighborhood ID
40804
Commons category
Salacak
postal code
34668
located in the statistical territorial entity
Istanbul Subregion
male population
4410
female population
5066
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Salacak is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Üsküdar, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 9,522 (2022). It is located on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, to the south of the historic center of Üsküdar.

The word salacak means "bench for washing a corpse," but the name is reported to come from sala meaning "village" (language unspecified) with the Turkish suffix -cık, "small."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salacak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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