Salacak
Salacak is a neighborhood in the Üsküdar municipality of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, to the south of the historic center of Üsküdar.
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Panorama of the Salacak neighborhood
The word salacak means "bench for washing a corpse,"[1] but the name is reported to come from sala meaning "village" (language unspecified) with the Turkish suffix -cık, "small."[2]
The neighborhood's best-known landmark is the Maiden's Tower (Kız Kulesi), just offshore from Salacak in the Bosporus.
Notes
- Türk Dil Kurumu. Büyük Türkçe Sözlük. URL: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2009-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Retrieved 23 October 2009.
- Hürel, page 272.
References
- Printed sources
- Hürel, Haldun (2008). Semtleri, Mahalleri, Caddeleri ve Sokakları A'dan Z'ye İstanbul'un Alfabetik Öyküsü. İkarus. ISBN 978-975-999-290-3.
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