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Swissôtel The Bosphorus is a luxury hotel in Istanbul and is managed by the Switzerland-based hotel chain Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts. The hotel is located in the centre of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, on the European banks of the Bosphorus. The hotel is member of The Leading Hotels of the World.
The Feriye Palace (Turkish: Feriye Sarayı) is a complex of Ottoman imperial palace buildings along the European shoreline of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, the buildings host educational institutions such as a high school and a university.
Aerial view of the Bosporus taken from its northern end near the Black Sea (bottom), looking south (top) toward the Marmara Sea, with the city center of Istanbul visible along the strait's hilly banks. The Bosporus or Bosphorus Strait (/ ˈ b ɒ s p ər ə s, ˈ b ɒ s f ər ə s / BOSS-pər-əs, BOSS-fər-əs; [a] Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı, lit.
The Beylerbeyi Palace (Turkish: Beylerbeyi Sarayı, literally meaning the palace of the bey of beys) is located in the Beylerbeyi neighbourhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Asian side of the Bosphorus. An imperial Ottoman summer residence built between 1861 and 1865, it is now situated immediately north of the first ...
Beykoz (Turkish pronunciation:) is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. [3] Its area is 310 km 2, [4] and its population is 247,875 (2022). [2] It lies at the northern end of the Bosphorus on the Anatolian side.
Its older sister structure, Anadoluhisari ("Anatolian Fortress"), sits on the opposite banks of the Bosporus, and the two fortresses worked in tandem during the final siege to throttle all naval traffic along the Bosphorus, thus helping the Ottomans achieve their goal of making the city of Constantinople (later renamed Istanbul) their new ...
The restaurant, 255 Graff Road SE, was built in 1991 and remodeled in 2012, according to records from the Tuscarawas County Auditor's Office. The building has an appraised value of $1.1 million.
Bosporus Germans is the nickname given to ethnic Germans who were living in Istanbul from the second half of the 19th century. Even before then there was evidence of a strong German presence in the city. For example, the Taksim German Hospital, founded by three nurses, started receiving patients in 1852. Today many German expatriates live in ...