Beylerbeyi

Beylerbeyi is a place in Istanbul ( Turkey) on the Asian side, the Bosporus.

The village owes its name Mehmet Pasa, who lived here in the 16th century and was the highest administrator of the European part of the Ottoman Empire ( " Beylerbey " means Lord of Lords and was the official name for two civil servants, which the administration of the empire split ). The village is characterized by a large palace in the south ( Beylerbeyi Sarayi ), a mosque at the center and many YALIS ( typical wooden houses of the upper classes ), which are now, however, except in the tourist-oriented Zone generously to decay to new buildings and facilities to build. Furthermore, have been over the last few decades built in the area of ​​higher slopes instead of those yalis concrete silos that receive many immigrants. When the yalis the shores of the Bosphorus still lined very numerous, were the famous Beylerbeyi by their large gardens, which usually ranged behind the buildings.

Beylerbeyi was inhabited at the time of the Roman Empire. The district in which the palace stands, was formerly called, Istavroz Bahceleri ', which translates as Cross gardens meant. The name have received the gardens of the large cross which Constantine the Great after his conversion to Christianity has had built here by the water. The small stream in the village got its name also of the cross. A few years ago still has a ruined church exists from the time of the Byzantine Empire.

In the first Bosphorus Bridge Beylerbeyi ends, it is opposite of Arnavutköy and Bebek. Here you enter from the west Asia. The former fishing village has thus developed into a fairly lively touristic meeting.

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• District (Istanbul)