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Flag of Zeytinburnu - Image by Jens Pattke, 10 November 2012
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The municipality of Zeytinburnu (292,407 inhabitants in 2012, 1,208 ha) is located in the European part of İstanbul, on the shore of the Marmara Sea.
Ivan Sache, 16 March 2016
The flag of Zeytinburnu is white with the district's emblem. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
The emblem of the municipality features a branch of olive; Zeytinburnu means "Cape of the Olive Trees" in Turkish.
The fortifications recall the old, circular fortress known to the Greeks as Kyklobion and to the Byzantines as Strongylon. Abandoned after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fortress fell into ruins until eventually suppressed in the 19th century.
Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 16 March 2016