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The Grand Bazaar (Turkish: Kapalıçarşı, meaning ‘Covered Market’; also Büyük Çarşı, meaning ‘Grand Market’ [1]) in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops [2] [3] on a total area of 30,700 m 2, [4] attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. [5]
Covered Bazaar. Beginning date. 1660 ; 364 years ago(1660) Completion date. After 1660. The Spice Bazaar ( Turkish: Mısır Çarşısı, meaning "Egyptian Bazaar") in Istanbul, Turkey, is one of the largest bazaars in the city. Located in the Eminönü quarter of the Fatih district, it is the most famous covered shopping complex after the Grand ...
Istanbul. / 41.01361°N 28.95500°E / 41.01361; 28.95500. Istanbul[ b] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of ...
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey. A bazaar [a] or souk [b] is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, [1] especially in the Middle East, [2] [1] the Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and South Asia. [1] They are traditionally located in vaulted or covered streets that had doors on each end and served as a city's ...
Mahmutpasha Bazaar, Istanbul. Coordinates: 41°00′40″N 28°58′11″E. Mahmutpaşa Bazaar. Mahmutpasha Bazaar ( Turkish: Mahmutpaşa Çarşısı) is a shopping street in Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the area between Grand Bazaar and Eminönü in the Mahmutpaşa neighbourhood of Fatih district. This market area, with copious small ...
The culture of Istanbul ( Turkish: İstanbul Kültürü) has its basis in the city that has been the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. However, when the Turkish Republic turned its focus away from Istanbul and toward Ankara, the city's cultural scene throughout the mid-20th century lay relatively stagnant, seeing limited success on ...
The Borsa İstanbul (abbreviated as BIST) is the sole exchange entity of Turkey combining the former Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) (Turkish: İstanbul Menkul Kıymetler Borsası, IMKB), the Istanbul Gold Exchange (Turkish: İstanbul Altın Borsası, İAB) and the Derivatives Exchange of Turkey (Turkish: Vadeli İşlem Opsiyon Borsası, VOB) under one umbrella.
The country's economy ranked as the 18th-largest in the world and 8th-largest in Europe by nominal GDP in 2023. It also ranked as the 11th-largest in the world and 5th-largest in Europe by PPP in 2023. According to the IMF, as of 2022, Turkey had an upper-middle income, mixed-market, emerging economy. [ 33]