List of castles, fortresses and palaces in Istanbul

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This list includes castles , fortresses and palaces in the Turkish province of Istanbul .

Buildings in other provinces of Turkey are included in the list of castles and fortresses in Turkey .

The list includes city fortifications, fortified individual buildings and building complexes. Also listed - fortified or unfortified - rulers' seats as well as residences of members of the government, princes and other high-ranking personalities.

Explanation of the list

• Image : Displays a picture of the building when possible.
• Name : Name of the building, if applicable, alternative name
• Location : Shows in which quarter / part of town the building is located.
• Coordinates : Indicates the geographic coordinate.
• Year : Shows the year of manufacture.
• Builder : Shows the builder.
• Remarks : Contains remarks about the building.

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image	Surname	location	Coordinates	year	builder	Remarks
	Ahmet Afif Pascha Yalısı , Misbah Muhayyeş, Kemal Uzan Yalısı	Sarıyer	41 ° 6 '52.1 "  N , 29 ° 3' 45.7"  E	Early 20th century
	Amcazade Hüseyin Pascha Yalısı Köprülü Fazıl Ahmet Paşa Yalısı	Beykoz	41 ° 5 '18.7 "  N , 29 ° 3' 57.3"  E	1699	Amcazade Huseyin Pasha	Residence of a grand vizier
	Anadolu Hisari	Beykoz	41 ° 4 ′ 55 "  N , 29 ° 4 ′ 1"  E	1395	Sultan Bayezid I.	On the Anatolian side of the Bosporus , Rumeli Hisarı controlled the shipping traffic with the opposite
	Antiochus Palace Antiochus Sarayı	Eminonu / Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 26.7 "  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 30.3"  E	416-418	Antiochus, Chamberlain
	Aydos Castle	Pendik	40 ° 55 ′ 54 ″  N , 29 ° 15 ′ 17 ″  E	late 13th century	Byzantines	Conquered by the Ottomans in 1328
	Aynalıkavak Palace Aynalıkavak Kasrı	Beyoğlu	41 ° 2 ′ 16.6 "  N , 28 ° 57 ′ 19.2"  E	Early 17th century	Sultan Ahmet I.	Sultan's Palace, now the Museum of Turkish Musical Instruments
	Beyazıt Tower Beyazıt Kulesi	Eminonu / Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 46 "  N , 28 ° 57 ′ 53"  E	1828	Senekerim Balyan	the Beyazıtt Tower was burned down or destroyed three times between 1749 and 1826
	Beylerbeyi Palace Beylerbeyi Sarayı	Üsküdar	41 ° 2 ′ 34 "  N , 29 ° 2 ′ 24"  E	1861-1865	Sultan Abdülaziz	Sultan's summer residence The first World Conference on Women took place here in 1934, organized by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
	Blaherna Sarayı Blaherna Palace	Fatih	41 ° 2 ′ 18.4 "  N , 28 ° 56 ′ 27.8"  E	12th century	Manuel I. Komnenos , Byzantine emperor	A district of 2 km 2 from the Theodosian Wall to the Walls of Herakleios . Residence of the Byzantine emperors
	Bodrum Palace Bodrum Sarayı	Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 31.3 "  N , 28 ° 57 ′ 19.4"  E	4th century
	Bukoleon Palace Bukoleon Sarayı	Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 9 "  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 32"  E	Probably 5th century	Probably Theodosius II , Eastern Roman emperor	Byzantine imperial palace, abandoned in the 13th century, later more and more destroyed by construction work.
	Çırağan Palace Çırağan Sarayı	Beşiktaş	41 ° 2 ′ 40 ″  N , 29 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E	16th century	Admiral Kilic Ali Pasha	Formerly the Sultan's Palace, now a 5-star hotel
	Çürüksulu Ahmet Pasha Yalısı	Üsküdar	41 ° 1 ′ 7.4 "  N , 29 ° 0 ′ 33.6"  E	early 19th century	Tirnakcizade family
	Dolmabahçe Palace Dolmabahçe Sarayı	Beşiktaş	41 ° 2 ′ 22 ″  N , 29 ° 0 ′ 6 ″  E	June 13, 1843 - June 7, 1856	Sultan Abdülmecid I.	From the middle of the 19th century the sultan's residence
	Fethi Pasha Yalısı	Üsküdar	41 ° 2 ′ 6.8 "  N , 29 ° 1 ′ 37.2"  E	Late 18th century
	Galata Tower Galata Kulesi	Galata / Beyoğlu	41 ° 1 ′ 32 "  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 27"  E	1348	Genoese
	Genoese Palace Cenova Sarayı	Karaköy / Beyoğlu	41 ° 1 ′ 28 ″  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 22 ″  E	1316	Montano de Marinis	Italian name Palazzo del Comune
	Buyuk Saray Grand Palace , Imperial Palaces	Eminonu / Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 16.1 "  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 37.8"  E	4th century
	Hatice Sultan Palace Hatice Sultan Yalısı	Ortaköy / Beşiktaş	41 ° 2 ′ 56 "  N , 29 ° 1 ′ 46.5"  E	18th century	Princess Hatice Sultan	Today water sports club
	Huber Yalısı	Sarıyer	41 ° 8 '3.1 "  N , 29 ° 3' 43.5"  E
	Ibrahim Pasha Palace İbrahim Paşa Sarayı, Atmeydanı Sarayı	Eminonu / Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 22.7 "  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 28.4"  E	15.-16. Century	Sultan Bayezid II	Residence of Grand Viziers, today Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
	Ihlamur Palace Ihlamur Kasrı	Şişli	41 ° 3 ′ 3 ″  N , 29 ° 0 ′ 6 ″  E	19th century
	Khedive Palace Hıdiv Kasrı	Beykoz	41 ° 6 ′ 18.4 "  N , 29 ° 4 ′ 25.8"  E	1907	Abbas Hilmi Pasha	last khedive of Egypt
	Kıbrıslı Yalısı	Üsküdar	41 ° 4 '34.4 "  N , 29 ° 3' 46.5"  E	circa 1760
	Küçüksu Palace Küçüksu Kasrı	Beykoz	41 ° 4 '42.2 "  N , 29 ° 3' 53.4"  E	1856/57	Sultan Abdülmecid I.
	Lausos Palace Lausos Sarayı	Eminonu / Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 27.3 "  N , 28 ° 58 ′ 31.8"  E	4th to 5th Century	Lausos, imperial chamberlain under Arcadios
	Maiden's Tower Kız Kulesi	before Üsküdar	41 ° 1 ′ 16 ″  N , 29 ° 0 ′ 15 ″  E	408 BC Chr.	Alcibiades	Expansion into a fortress in 1110 under Alexios I Komnenos
	Nuri Pasha Yalısı Rahmi Koç Yalısı	Beykoz	41 ° 5 ′ 57 "  N , 29 ° 3 ′ 55"  E	1895	Nuri Pasha
	Porphyrogennetos Palace Tekfur Palace, Tekfur Sarayı	Fatih	41 ° 2 ′ 2 "  N , 28 ° 56 ′ 25"  E	13th century		Byzantine Palace Part of the Blachernen Palace district
	Rumeli Hisari	Sarıyer	41 ° 5 ′ 5 "  N , 29 ° 3 ′ 22"  E	1452	Sultan Mehmed II	European side of the Bosphorus. controlled the shipping traffic with the opposite Anadolu Hisarı .
	Sadullah Pasha Yalısı	Üsküdar	41 ° 2 '56.5 "  N , 29 ° 3' 8.3"  E	2nd half of the 18th century
	Sait Halim Pasha Yalısı	Sarıyer	41 ° 7 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 29 ° 4 ′ 12 ″  E	2nd half of the 19th century	Said Halim Pasha
	Serifler Yalısı	Sarıyer	41 ° 6 '15.1 "  N , 29 ° 3' 22.8"  E	1782
	Theodosian Land Wall İstanbul Surları, Topkapı Surları	Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 8 "  N , 28 ° 55 ′ 15"  E	Beginning of the 5th century	Theodosius II	Between the Golden Horn and the Sea of ​​Marmara
	Topkapı Palace Topkapı Sarayı	Eminonu / Fatih	41 ° 0 ′ 46 ″  N , 28 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E	15th century	Sultan Mehmet II	Residence and seat of government of the sultans, now a museum
	Yedikule	Fatih	40 ° 59 ′ 35 "  N , 28 ° 55 ′ 24"  E	5th century	Emperor Theodosius II	Part of the Theodosian Land Wall
	Yıldız Palace Yıldız Sarayı	Beşiktaş	41 ° 3 '10.6 "  N , 29 ° 0' 49.9"  E	1880-1898
	Yoros	Anadolu Kavağı / Beykoz	41 ° 10 ′ 43 "  N , 29 ° 5 ′ 40"  E	13th Century	Michael VIII , Byzantine Emperor	Before the location of a temple of Zeus Ottoman from 1453

See also

• List of architectural monuments and museums in Istanbul

Web links

Commons : Palaces in Istanbul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Denizce website ( Memento from September 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Turkish)
2. ↑ ArchNet ( Memento of 14 December 2010 at the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Marianne Mehling (ed.): Knaurs Kulturführer Istanbul und Marmarameer. Droemer.-Knaur, 1990, ISBN 3-426-26294-0 , p. 48.
4. ↑ Hatice Sultan Yalısı ayakta kalan tek Yalı
5. ↑ Samir Rafaat, Queen for a day
6. ^ Achim Bourmer: Istanbul . Baedeker 2005, ISBN 978-3-8297-1083-1 , S 147, at GoogleBooks .