The
gold horn was a normal port, in particular the shore of Eminönü -
Sirkeci, which to be on a
peninsula was also eminently justifiable.
It was for this port that Istanbul was built, and from here Istanbul
developed, with the oldest vicinities being left zones along the
gold horn. In time the port bizantin was also occupied by the traders
of Genoa and Pisa, which thereafter acquired their own quays and
zones of edge of sea. The gold horn was always a prosperous port
in a few times of stool, occupied by importers, carriers, sailors
and tradesmen of each description, the center of the exchanges of
the city, a labryinth of the narrow wokshops of streets and markets
carrying out to the top with the palate of Topkapı, the capital of
stool. The name of the zone, Eminönü, also reflects its place in
the history. Translated of Turkish to English it means harshly 'in
front of justice'. Significance 'justice' of Emin, significance of
önü 'in front'. The name came most probably from the courses of stool
and the customs houses on the docks. The nature of the place naturally
changed in the industrial age; the bridge of Galata was built through
the gold horn; the steamers came, then electricity, then the railroad
and the terminal of Istanbul of the express East were naturally located
at the station of Sirkeci. The dams always surrounded the city, and
them seaports of the port of Eminönü were the entrance point for
goods, and people. After the
enormous station, other large stone
buildings followed towards the purpose of the period of stool, the
buildings commercial, the central post office between others. And
in days early of the Turkish Republic,
Eminönü was renovated intensively;
the great place was open in front of Yeni Cami (by releasing outside
the tollbooths at the end of the bridge of Galata); The spice bazaar
was reconstituted; the market in fish was was released in addition
to shore from the horn from gold and a road open to the new bridge
at Unkapanı. By the Fifties, the sector without interruption was
blocked with the traffic, which was relieved slightly by construction
of the main road of coast around the point and of very left to the
airport Istanbul.