Vişnezade
Sign in to savethumb|220x220px|Vişnezade Fountain in Maçka Vişnezade is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 7,959 as of 2023. Vişne translates to "sour cherry" 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.
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- Instance of
- mahalle
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Beşiktaş
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 8337
- Area
- 0.66
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Body of water
- Bosporus Strait
- Dialing code
- 212
- Licence plate code
- 34
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- Commons category
- Vişnezade
- postal code
- 34357
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Istanbul Subregion
- Turkey neighborhood ID
- 40214
- male population
- 2754
- female population
- 3326
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thumb|220x220px|Vişnezade Fountain in Maçka Vişnezade is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of Beşiktaş, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 7,959 as of 2023. Vişne translates to "sour cherry" 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. Beyoğlu district is to the southwest, Sinanpaşa (Beşiktaş centrum) is to the north east and the Bosphorus is to the southeast. It includes multiple quarters, such as Akaretler, Dolmabahçe, Maçka, and Valideçeşme.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vişnezade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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