Galatija

1. Of or pertaining to Galatia.

From Ancient Greek Γαλατία (Galatía).

1. A region of ancient Asia Minor, in what is now central Turkey; a province of ancient Rome.

This article is about the currently standing Galata Tower built by the Genoese in 1348. For the Megalos Pyrgos (Great Tower) built by the Byzantines at a nearby but different location (closer to the sea) and destroyed during the Sack of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders in 1204, see Galata Tower (old).

Galata Tower

Galata Kulesi
View of the Galata Tower from a nearby street in the historic Galata (Karaköy) quarter within the Beyoğlu (Pera) district of Istanbul
Location in Istanbul
Coordinates	41°1′32.36″N28°58′26.96″E
Location	Istanbul, Turkey
Type	Tower
Material	Stone
Width	16.54 m (54.3 ft)
Height	66.9 m (219 ft)
Completion date	1348 A.D.[1]

The Galata* Tower (Galata Kulesi in Turkish) — called Christea Turris (the Tower of Christ in Latin) by the Genoese — is a medieval stone tower in the Galata/Karaköy quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, just to the north of the Golden Horn's junction with the Bosphorus. It is a high, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline and offers a panoramic vista of Istanbul's historic peninsula and its environs.

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* Paprasčiausiai

- su turkais pasišneku.