Sabancı Merkez Camii – Sabancı Central Mosque

Sabancı Merkez Camii – Sabancı Central Mosque

Sabancı Merkez Camii (English: Sabancı Central Mosque) in Adana is the second largest mosque in Turkey.[failed verification] The exterior of the mosque (and its interior decoration) is similar to the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, though it has six minarets, similar to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul. The mosque, which went into service […]

Read More
Asia|Turkey

Zonguldak

Zonguldak (Tpronunciation: [zoŋˈguɫdak]) is a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It was established in 1849 as a port town for the nearby coal mines in Ereğli and the coal trade remains its main economic activity. According to the 2009 census, Zonguldak has a population of 108,792. […]

Read More
Istanbul|Zeytinburnu

Zeytinburnu

Zeytinburnu (literally, Olive Cape) is a working-class neighbourhood, municipality (belediye) and district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, on the shore of the Marmara Sea just outside the walls of the ancient city, beyond the fortress of Yedikule. The leather industry has largely moved out to Tuzla now but the rows of six-storey blocks […]

Read More
Asia|Turkey

Van

Van is a city in eastern Turkey’s Van Province, located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city has a long history as a major urban area. It has been a large city since the first millennium BC, initially as Tushpa, the capital of the kingdom of Urartu from the 9th century BC to […]

Read More
Asia|Turkey

Yalova

Yalova is a city located in northwestern Turkey, near the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Yalova has a city population of 100,863, while the population of Yalova Province is 118,998 as of 2011. Currently there is a controversy around the municipal election results in Yalova especially after the Supreme Election Board invalidated the […]

Read More
Asia|Turkey

Yozgat

Yozgat is a city and the capital district of Yozgat province in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. According to 2019 census, population of the district is 421.200 of which 106,280 live in the city of Yozgat. History Yozgat has been subjected to a number of surveys and excavations in the past and it has […]

Read More
Istanbul|Tuzla

Tuzla

Tuzla is a municipality in the province of Istanbul, Turkey on the Asian side of the city next to the municipality of Pendik. Tuzla is on a headland on the coast of the Marmara Sea, at the eastern limit of the city. There are still fishing boats, but by the end of the 1980s, fishing […]

Read More
Istanbul|Ümraniye

Ümraniye

Ümraniye is a district of Istanbul. It was separated from Üsküdar in 1987. It gained the villages of Ömerli, Koçullu, Sırapınar and Hüseyinli from Beykoz in the same year. Finally, Nişantepe quarter passed from Samandıra, where bound to Kartal, to Alemdar, where bound to Ümraniye in 2002.[clarification needed] It is bordered by Çekmeköy to the […]

Read More
Istanbul|Üsküdar

Üsküdar

Üsküdar (Turkish pronunciation: [ysˈcydaɾ]), traditionally known in Italian and English as Scutari (Skoutàrion, Σκουτάριον in Greek), and in classical antiquity known as Chrysopolis, is a large and densely populated district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered on the north by Beykoz, on the east by Ümraniye, […]

Read More
Asia|Turkey

Uşak

Uşak (Turkish pronunciation: [ushak]) is a city in the interior part of the Aegean Region of Turkey. The city has a population of 500,000 (2016 census) and is the capital of Uşak Province. The city was previously known by its Greek name of Ousakeion/Ουσάκειον. Uşak city is situated at a distance of 210 km (130 […]

Read More