Samatya

The name originates from the Greek word psamathion ({{lang|el|Ψαμάθιον}}), meaning "sandy", because of the great quantity of sand found in the quarter.Janin (1964), p. 418

About 383 AD, the first monastic institution was established in Constantinople, at Psamatheia, at that time still outside the walled city.Tsai, Kathryn (Dr). A Timeline of Eastern Church History. Divine Ascent Press, CA, 2004. p.73. {{ISBN|0-9714139-2-4}}

Up to recent times, Samatya was mostly inhabited by Armenians, who were settled here in 1458 by Sultan Mehmet II,Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 200 and who own there the church of Surp Kevork, also called Sulu Manastiri (Water's monastery) – previously an Eastern Orthodox church which dates back to before the Ottoman conquest, and by Greeks, who have the churches of Hristos Analipsis and Haghios Menas.Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 186

The quarter was destroyed in 1782 by one of the largest fires of Istanbul ever recorded.

The area was affected by the British bombing of İstanbul during the WWI.{{Cite journal |last=Selçuk |first=Mustafa |title=Birinci Dünya Savaşın'da İtilaf Devletleri'nin İstanbul'a Yönelik Hava Taaruzları |trans-title=The Allied Powers' Air Attacks on Istanbul in World War I |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/108927 |journal=Marmara Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi}}

In Samatya there is also an important public hospital, the Istanbul Educational and Research Hospital İstanbul Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi.

Samatya has a station (named "Kocamustafapaşa") on the T6 line Sirkeci-Kazlıçeşme.

• Hrachia Acharian - Armenian linguist
• Simon Agopyan - Armenian painter
• Mihran Apikyan - Armenian writer and linguist
• Sevan Bıçakçı - Turkish jeweller
• Gomidas Keumurdjian - priest and martyr of the Armenian Catholic Church
• Levon Larents - Armenian writer
• Avedis Zildjian III - Armenian American cymbal maker

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• {{cite book

| last=Janin

| first= Raymond

| authorlink= Raymond Janin

| title=Constantinople Byzantine

| publisher=Institut Français d'Etudes Byzantines

| location=Paris

| language=French

| edition=2

| year=1964

}}

• {{cite book

| last=Müller-Wiener

| first= Wolfgang

| authorlink=Wolfgang Müller-Wiener

| title=Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul bis zum Beginn d. 17 Jh

| publisher=Wasmuth

| location=Tübingen

| year=1977

| isbn = 978-3-8030-1022-3

| language=German

}}

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