Kemerburgaz

Kemerburgaz is a village in the Eyüp district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

Kemerburgaz
Village
Kemerburgaz Location in Istanbul Province
Coordinates: 41°09′42″N 28°55′14″E / 41.16167°N 28.92056°E / 41.16167; 28.92056
Country	Turkey
Region	Marmara
Province	Istanbul Province
District	Eyüp
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code	34075
Area code	0–212

Toponymy

Kemerburgaz is a historic settlement located southwest of Belgrad Forest between the aqueducts Kurt Kemeri ("Wolf's Aqueduct") and Uzun Kemer ("Long Aqueduct"). During the Byzantine era (c. 330–1453), its name was Pyrgos (Greek: Πύργος, for 'tower' or 'bastion'). After the conquest of Istanbul in 1453, it was renamed Burgaz, the Turkish language translation for bastion. Local people changed its name to Kemerburgaz, a concatenation of Kemer ('aqueduct') and Burgaz, when the renowned architect Mimar Sinan (c. 1489/1490–1588) repaired the ruined Byzantine aqueducts and built new waterways in the area.^[1]

Demographics

The ethnographic structure of the village remained quite unchanged during the Ottoman era after the conquest (1453–1923). According to the first census conducted after the Turkish War of Independence, the village had 360 Greek-origin and ten Turkish households. The Turkish residents were immigrants from Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78). During the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey, Turkish people from Thessaloniki were settled in the village replacing the people of Greek origin, who were sent in exchange to Greece, where they founded the settlement of Neos Pyrgos (New Pyrgos) in North Euboea.^[1]

Access

İETT city bus lines #48 (Göktürk-Mecidiyeköy,^[2] #48A (Göktürk-Kazlıçeşme),^[3] #48E (Göktürk-Eminönü),^[4] #48K (Kemerburgaz-Ağaçlı Köyü),^[5] #48KA (Kemerburgaz-Arnavutköy),^[6] #48L (Göktürk-4. Levent Metro),^[7] and #48P (Kemerburgaz-Akpınar) serve Kemerburgaz from various locations of Istanbul.^[8]

References

1. Kalkan, Ersin (2007-02-16). "Kemerburgaz'dan Terkos'a İstanbul köyleri". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
2. "48 Göktürk – Mecidiyeköy İETT Otobüs Hattı Güzergahı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
3. "48A Göktürk – Topkapı İETT Otobüs Hattı Güzergahı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
4. "48E Göktürk – Eminönü İETT Otobüs Hattı Güzergahı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
5. "48K Kemerburgaz – Ağaçlı Köyü İETT Otobüs Hattı Güzergahı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
6. "48KA Kemerburgaz Arnavutköy Otobüs Saatleri" (in Turkish). Otobüs Saatleri. Retrieved 2016-09-02.
7. "48L Göktürk – 4. Levent Metro İETT Otobüs Hattı Güzergahı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-09-02.
8. "48P Kemerburgaz – Akpınar İETT Otobüs Hattı Güzergahı" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-09-02.