Baltalimanı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Sarıyer, Istanbul Province, Turkey.Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its population is 5,151 (2022). It lies at a bay on the European coast of the Bosporus. Take its name from Suleiman Baltoghlu, the commander of the Ottoman fleet at the time of the conquest of Constantinople in 1453.Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Online, Bālṭa Līmānī
The place is known for the Treaty of Balta Liman, signed between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire in 1838.
The ancient name was Gynaikon Limen (; "Women's Harbor").R. Güngerich (ed.), Dionysii Byzantii Anaplus Bospori, 1927 (reprint, Berlin, 1958), p.801
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