Polonezköy

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Polonez (Polish Adampol ) is a village in the administrative district Beykoz the Turkish province of İstanbul. Polonez had according to the last census, 390 inhabitants (as at end December 2010).

Polonez was founded by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski in 1842. In Polonez among others, the descendants of the Crimean War who settled there after the Polish, Czech and Bohemian mercenaries of the Sultan live. The village has a Polish appearance and has, for example a Roman Catholic church, including graveyard. The settlers built their village by indigenous species with half-timbered houses and walled gardens, in which they planted familiar fruit trees and shrubs. The inhabitants of Polonez lived a long time from the sale of pork products which were very popular among the non-Muslim population of Istanbul, since pork in Muslim Turkey was difficult to access otherwise. Today, however, occurs more and more tourism to the fore, because Polonez is considered among the Turks as " the most exotic village in Turkey ". The inhabitants cherished to this day their Polish language.