Beykoz

Merkez or Beykoz Merkez is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beykoz, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,870 (2022). It is the city center of Beykoz district and one of its 45 neighborhoods on the Anatolian/Asian side of Istanbul.Looking at its administrative borders, Yalıköy and Ortaçeşme neighborhoods lie in the north; to the northeast is Akbaba; Elmalı village is to the east; İncirköy neighborhood is to the southeast; Gümüşsuyu is to the south; and to the west is the Bosphorus Strait. The 500-year-old Onçeşmeler (İshak Ağa Fountain), the work of Mimar Sinan and taking its latest form in 1746 AD/1159 AH, is located in the square on the coast. The historical Serbostani Mustafa Ağa Mosque (1809 AD/1229 AH) stands next to it. The upper quarter was known as the Armenian Quarter with its Surp Nigoğayos Church first built in 1776.A fishing community thrives on the coast of Merkez.

Amycus or Amykos (Ancient Greek: Ἄμυκος) was a coastal town of ancient Bithynia located on the Bosphorus. Its site is located near Beykoz in Asiatic Turkey.

Beykoz Arena is a stadium that is currently under construction in Beykoz, Turkey. It was expected to open to the public in 2015 and have a capacity of 10,000 spectators. It will be the new home of Beykozspor of the TFF Third League. It will replace the club's current home, Beykoz Stadyumu.

Moukaporis was a coastal town of ancient Bithynia located on the Bosphorus. Its site is located near Hünkâr İskelesi in Asiatic Turkey.

Yalıköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beykoz, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,107 (2022). It lies by the Anatolian/Asian side of the Bosphorus Strait. The name is a combination of two words: yalı ("waterside house" in Greek) and köy ("village" in Turkish). Yalıköy is known for its historic wooden Ottoman style houses overlooking the waters of the Bosphorus. A skyscraper skyline can be seen across on the other side of the Bosphorus, the business district of Maslak. People of Greek, Turkish, Albanian, and Armenian origin used to live in the area. A fishing community thrives on the coast of Yalıköy.

Palodes (Ancient Greek: Παλῶδες) was a coastal town of ancient Bithynia located on the Bosphorus. Its site is located near Sultaniye in Asiatic Turkey.

The Bosphorus Water Tunnel (Turkish: Boğaziçi Su Tüneli) or Bosporus aqueduct is an undersea aqueduct in Istanbul, Turkey, crossing the Bosphorus strait. It was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province to the European side of Istanbul.

Turkish-German University (Turkish: Türk-Alman Üniversitesi, German: Türkisch-Deutsche Universität) is a state university located in Istanbul, Turkey. The university was founded in 2013 with the intent of having an institute merging academic traditions from both Germany and Turkey. The university offers courses in Turkish, English and German.

Paşabahçe is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beykoz, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,717 (2022). It is located on the Anatolian side of the Bosphorus. Paşabahçe is a remote settlement in Istanbul. The village was once inhabited only by non-Muslims. Grand vizier Hezarpare Ahmed Pasha (in office 1647–1648) built here a palace-like mansion with a wide yard. Hence the name "Paşabahçe", literally "Pasha's Yard". Later, Sultan Mustafa III (r. 1757-1753) built a school, a mosque, a hamam (Turkish bath) and a fountain in the location, and settled Muslim Turks around the buildings. Even though the Christian population declined over the time, it did not disappear completely. In 1894, a Greek Orthodox church named Agios Konstantinos was built. There is also a holy well (Turkish: ayazma from Greek: ἁγίασμα, hagiasm). In the 19th century, there were seven yalıs, waterfront mansions, one mosque, two churches, two bakeries, one mill and a fishing weir. During this period, workshops for glassware, porcelain ware and candle production. The foundation of an alcohol factory in 1922 and a glassware factory in 1934 contributed to the rapid increase of the population in the settlement.Situated at a bay, Paşabahçe features public parks and restaurants at the seashore. It is popular recreational place for residents of Istanbul.The MS Paşabahçe, which bears this name, is a passenger ship that has been operated by city passenger ferry lines company "Şehir Hatları". on multiple passenger ferry routes in the Sea of Marmara since 1952. The name of the place has become a trade mark as "Paşabahçe" for glassware products.

The Bosporus or Bosphorus Strait ( BOSS-pər-əs, BOSS-fər-əs; Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı, lit. 'Istanbul strait', colloquially Boğaz) is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul, Turkey. The Bosporus connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and forms one of the continental boundaries between Asia and Europe. It also divides Turkey by separating Anatolia from Thrace. It is the world's narrowest strait used for international navigation. Most of the shores of the Bosporus Strait, except for the area to the north, are heavily settled, with the city of Istanbul's metropolitan population of 17 million inhabitants extending inland from both banks. The Bosporus Strait and the Dardanelles Strait at the opposite end of the Sea of Marmara are together known as the Turkish Straits. Sections of the shore of the Bosporus in Istanbul have been reinforced with concrete or rubble and those sections of the Strait prone to deposition are periodically dredged.

Daphne Mainomene, also called Nymphaeum or Nymphaion (Ancient Greek: Νύμφαιον or Νυμφαῖον), was a coastal town of ancient Bithynia located on the Bosphorus. Its site is tentatively located near Umur yeri in Asiatic Turkey.

Akbaba is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beykoz, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,771 (2022). It is home to the türbe of Akbaba Sultan (Akbaba Mehmed Efendi or Akmehmet Efendi in short), a Bektashi Sufi baba who participated in the Conquest of Constantinople and was a mentor of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror (reigned 1444–1446, 1451–1481). Following the Conquest, he moved to this valley rich with spring waters and established a tekke with his dervish murids. The tekke was last revived by the Naqshbandi Shaykh Abdulhakim Efendi of Bukhara between 1876 and 1889.Canfeda Hatun, a noblewoman attendant of Sultan Murad III’s mother, completed building a mosque in 1588 which bears her name.It is thought that the Sufi complex first fell into disuse, along with all other Bektashi lodges in and around Istanbul, with its closure following the Auspicious Incident of 1826. Its followers were exiled from the area. Following an inactive period of half a century, during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II, it was turned over to Shaykh Abdulhakim by Abdulkadir Pasha, the commander of Istanbul central command. The pasha helped rebuild the center. Upon Shaykh Abdulhakim's passing in 1889, he was buried near Akbaba Sultan behind the tekke, which came to be Akbaba Cemetery extending up the hillside. His son Ahmed Mansur Mukerrem Efendi took his place and was active until the declaration of all tekkes and zawiyas to be illegal in 1925. The law for the closure of traditional institutions was passed on 30 November 1925 as part of Mustafa Kemal's reforms and revolutions.Religious institutions started to appear in public life along with the multi-party system following the 1950 Turkish general election. By this time, most of the tekke buildings were destroyed and only the mosque and attached harem section remained. The harem section was turned into an imam's office. The government of President Erdogan and his AK Party supported religious institutions and restored the mosque in the 2000s. The mosque was rebuilt again in the 2010s, keeping true to its original wooden form on a stone foundation, and reclaiming the entire borders of the complex with landscaping and a stone border wall.A Rifai tekke also existed in the village but its one known building fell into disuse, rotted away and was demolished for safety reasons. The graveyard of the tekke is preserved and lies next to the property of Akbaba Dergah. The successor of Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani of Cyprus, Shaykh Mehmet Adil, resides here and his Dergah is also here. The area is famous for its greenery which attracts the filming of Turkish TV series.