Bebek

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View of Bebek from Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Bebek is a district in the northeast of Istanbul's Beşiktaş district with about 5000 inhabitants (2011). The district, which is one of the wealthiest in Istanbul, is characterized by the promenade on the Bosphorus and the numerous fashionable shops, cafes and restaurants.

geography

Location of Bebeks within Beşiktaş '

Bebek borders in the south on Arnavutköy and Kültür , in the west on Etiler and in the north on Rumeli Hisarı in Sarıyer . To the east, the Bay of Bebek forms a natural border in the Bosporus. The Bosphorus reaches its deepest point at 160 m on the line between the mosque of Bebek and the Cape of Kandilli.

history

Bebek 1872 from the perspective of Jan Matejko .

Until the end of the 17th century there were only a few Greek fishing villages around today's Bebek for centuries . In the 18th century, the Ottoman upper class began to build their summer residences around Bebek. In the 19th century, Bebek was an independent village.

In 1840, the American missionary Cyrus Hamlin founded an English-language theological seminary in Bebek, which later became the Robert College , which in turn produced today's Boğaziçi Üniversitesi .

Cityscape

Egyptian consulate in Bebek in July 2008

Bebek is characterized by residential and commercial buildings built in the 19th century; in the south of the district is a small park with an adjacent, 1,913 of completed mosque south is the 1902 Art Nouveau under Abbas Hilmi II. completely neugestalte Egyptian consulate , which is being renovated. The Boğaziçi Üniversitesi buildings are in the New England style. There is also a Greek Orthodox Church, Aya Haralambos .

Demographics

Bebek is shaped by upper-class, mostly long-established Istanbul residents, it forms a stronghold of Kemalism . Many expatriates also live in Bebek. Among other things, this has the consequence that the square meter prices for real estate are the highest in Istanbul.

Infrastructure

Bebek Park with jetty on the right in the picture.

Until the 1950s, Bebek was the final stop of a tram line , today the connection by public transport is largely limited to six bus lines starting in Sarıyer to Kabataş and Taksim in a southerly direction. Bebek has a jetty with scheduled ferry traffic: the line from Beykoz to Eminönü is served twice a day in each direction; the line from Emirgan to Çengelköy is shipped seven times a day. The line from Emirgan to Bebek is served nine times in each direction on Sundays and public holidays.

Culture

Life in Bebek is characterized on the one hand by the Boğaziçi Üniversitesi and on the other by the “lively” and “chic” nightlife : especially on the promenade, the children of wealthy parents show off their luxury cars.

Personalities

Marina von Bebek at night

Due to its exclusivity, significantly more well-known people appeared in Bebek than in places of comparable size. A number of personalities moved their residence entirely to Bebek, including Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha at the turn of the 20th century and the industrialists Sakıp Sabancı and Sadberk Koç during the 20th century. The poet Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan was born in Bebek in 1852. The writer Aras Ören grew up in Bebek and is disgusted with what he sees as the “degenerate, mendacious traditionalist” middle-class culture of the place. Alfred Kantorowicz , who had rendered outstanding services to Turkish dentistry, lived in Cevdet Paşa Caddesi, Sağlık Apt , from 1933 . No. 5 .

Pop Culture

In the Turkish-localized version of the board game Monopoly , Bebek takes the place of Pennsylvania Avenue (in the German-localized version: Bahnhofstrasse ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Administration of the Beşiktaş district: Bebek  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.besiktas.bel.tr  
  2. ↑ Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul: Memories of a City . Albert A. Knopf, New York, NY 2005, pp. 300 (Turkish: İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir . Translated by Maureen Freely, originally published in 2003).
  3. ^ A b Verity Campbell, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Dan Elridge, Frances Linzee Gordon: Turkey . 10th edition. Lonely Planet, Oakland, CA 2007, pp. 129 .
  4. ↑ Yusuf Mardin: Bosphorus Through the Ages . TC Kültür Bakanlığı, Ankara 1995, ISBN 975-17-1580-6 , p. 7 .
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  6. ^ Bayard Dodge: American Educational and Missionary Efforts in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries . In: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . tape 401 , May 1972, p. 15-22, p. 19 , JSTOR : 1039108 .
  7. ^ A b c d Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Levent Ugürlu, Jan Schmidt-Whitley, Christine Turco: Le Petit Futé Istanbul . 4th edition. Le Petit Futé, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-7469-1794-7 , pp. 369 .
  8. ↑ Susanne Güsten: The crack runs right through the families; Kemalists against Islamists: Turkey is a divided nation . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . July 12, 2008, p. 4 ( genios.de [accessed on August 7, 2008]).
  9. ↑ Rick Lyman: Istanbul's crosscurrents of past and future . In: International Herald Tribune . September 27, 2005, p. 24 ( iht.com [accessed August 8, 2008]).
  10. ^ Marc Semo: La Turquie peu charitable avec ses chrétiens . In: Liberation . November 27, 2006, p. 34 f . ( liberation.fr [accessed August 7, 2008]).
  11. ↑ Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul: Memories of a City . Albert A. Knopf, New York, NY 2005, pp. 44 (Turkish: İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir . Translated by Maureen Freely, original published in 2003).
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  13. ↑ İstanbul Deniz Otobüsleri A.Ş. (Ed.): Boğaz Hatti . 2008 ( com.tr [accessed August 7, 2008]). Boğaz Hatti ( Memento of the original dated August 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ido.com.tr
  14. ↑ a b İstanbul Deniz Otobüsleri A.Ş. (Ed.): Hafta İçi . 2008 ( com.tr [accessed August 7, 2008]). Hafta İçi ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ido.com.tr
  15. ^ Jean-Claude Guillebaud : Istanbul: A City In Search of a Continent . In: Ramesh Kumar Biswas (Ed.): Metropolis Now !: Urban Cultures in Global Cities . Springer, Vienna 2000.
  16. ↑ Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul: Memories of a City . Albert A. Knopf, New York, NY 2005, pp. 279 (Turkish: İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir . Translated by Maureen Freely, original published in 2003).
  17. ^ Roderic H. Davison: The Question of Ali Pasa's Political Testament . In: International Journal of Middle East Studies . tape 11 , no. 2 , April 1980, p. 209-225, p. 210 , JSTOR : 162285 .
  18. ↑ Chris Reinewald: Stad van hüzün . In: Het Financieele Dagblad . December 16, 2006, p. 40 .
  19. ^ F. Giese: Abd Al-Ḥakk Ḥamit . In: Martin Theodor Houtsma et al .. (Ed.): EJBrill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 . tape 1 . Brill, Leiden & New York 1913, pp. 39 .
  20. ^ Moray McGowan: Istanbul, Turkey, Bosphorus . In: Andy Hollis (Ed.): Beyond Boundaries: Textual Representations of European Identity . Rodopi, Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA 2000, pp. 52-70, p. 58 f .
  21. ↑ Ali Vicdani Doyum: Alfred Kantorowicz with special reference to his work in İstanbul (A contribution to the history of modern dentistry). Medical dissertation, Würzburg 1985, pp. 95-100.

Web links

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Coordinates: 41 ° 4 ′ 51.3 "  N , 29 ° 2 ′ 38.1"  E