Bakırköy is a large, densely populated
middle class residential suburb of
İstanbul,
Turkey on its
European side, between the E5 main road and on the coast of the
Sea of Marmara. Bakırköy is an important shopping and commercial center for İstanbul. In Byzantine times Bakırköy was a separate community outside Istanbul, a well-watered pleasant seaside retreat from the city, and was called Hebdomon (
Greek: "seven miles" (from the city)), distorted in Hepdoman. Here the Emperor
Valens built the imperial Palace of Magnaura. The church of St. John in Hebdomon was also built here. Later the place was also named Makrohori ('the distant place') which was distorted to Makriköy ("Köy" meaning "village" in Turkish, used in place of "-hori") in the Ottoman period, when many large houses were built here. In 1925 this was changed to Bakırköy in a move to eliminate all place names of non-Turkish origin. Further out of town from the centre of Bakırköy is the town of
Yeşilköy (Ayastefanos).
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