Polonezkoy
| Polonezkoy | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Istanbul | |||
| District ( ilçe ) : | Beykoz | |||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 7 ' N , 29 ° 12' E | |||
| Height : | 150 m | |||
| Residents : | 390 (2010) | |||
| Telephone code : |
(+90) 212 (European part) (+90) 216 (Asian part) |
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| Postal code : | 34829 | |||
| License plate : | 34 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2010) | ||||
| Muhtar : | Antoni Vilkoşevski | |||
Polonezköy ( Polish Adampol ) is a village in the Beykoz district in the Turkish province of İstanbul . It is located around 30 km east of the historic city center of the metropolis İstanbul and, according to the last census, had 390 inhabitants (as of December 2010).
history
Polonezköy was founded in 1842 by Polish settlers who had emigrated into exile during the period of Polish partition , under the leadership of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski . Alongside Paris, the place was supposed to grow into the second center of exile for the Polish resistance against the occupants of the time in the homeland and to be established by the Polish dissident Michał Czajkowski as a representative of the Polish government in exile. The descendants of the Polish and Czech mercenaries of the Ottoman Sultanate who settled there after the Crimean War live in the place today . However, after Polish independence was regained in 1918, many of the settlers returned to Poland.
Polonezköy gained tourist importance from the beginning because of its special architecture. The village has a Polish appearance and has, for example, a Roman Catholic church and cemetery. The settlers built Polonezköy the local style with half-timbered houses and fenced gardens in which they planted familiar fruit trees and shrubs. Numerous prominent personalities such as Franz Liszt (1847), Gustave Flaubert (1850), Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1937), Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1941), Adam Rapacki (1961), Kenan Evren (1985), Lech Wałęsa (1994) and Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1996) visited the location.
For a long time, however, the inhabitants of Polonezköy lived from the sale of pork products, which were very popular among the non-Muslim population of Istanbul, as pork was otherwise difficult to access in Muslim Turkey . In the meantime, tourism has fully come to the fore, because Polonezköy is considered by the Turks to be "the most exotic village in Turkey". The inhabitants still maintain their Polish language and Polish customs to this day. Furthermore, numerous festivals with Polish music are held on site.
The best-known sons and daughters of Polonezköy include the author Nazım Hikmet and the opera singer Leyla Gencer .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed June 10, 2011
- ↑ Yerelnet.org , accessed June 10, 2011