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Dolapdere
Dolapdere
is a quarter of
Beyoğlu
district
in central
Istanbul, Turkey
. It is surrounded by the quarters of
Taksim
,
Kasımpaşa
,
Pangaltı
and
Kurtuluş
.
Sites
There is a
museum
dedicated
to the memory of
Adam Mickiewicz
, the
19th century
Polish poet
, located in the
center
of Dolapdere. Mickiewicz died in 1855 of
cholera
while visiting a
military camp
near
Constantinople
. He had come to
Turkey
to
raise
soldiers
for the
war against
Russia
by
the help
of
Ottoman Empire
as the Ottomans were known as true, brave and
strong
warriors.
The Ottomans
even helped
Adam
out more by giving him 50,000 of the Ottoman troops to
face
Russia in the
battle
as the
Poles
were not strong enough.
The
Dolapdere Campus
of
Bilgi University
is located in this area.
