Belgrad Ormanları
Belgrad Türkiye'deki nadir geniş yapraklı ağaç ormanlarındandır. fatih sultan mehmet belgrad'ın osmanlı imparatorluğu'na katılmasından sonra belgrad'dan getirilen sırpları buraya yerleştirmiş ve burda bir köy oluşmuştur. ancak daha sonra burda yaşayanların çevredeki su kaynaklarını kirletmesi sebebiyle burdan gönderilmişlerdir.
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Instead of finding many Byzantine remains of aqueducts, there are mainly only Ottoman dams remaining, which were all built over a period of 150 years. The Valens Aqueduct that straddles busy Atatürk Bulvarı as it runs uphill from the Golden Horn is the largest of the monuments commemorating the complex system needed to bring the water into the city during the 16th-18th centuries. In the forest there were two separate channeling systems.
The older of the two was the Kırkçeşme system that directed water into town Eğrikapı hard against the city walls. Many of the aqueducts and reservoirs that supported this system were originally built in Roman and Byzantine times, but in the 16th century Suleiman the Magnificent commissioned the Ottoman architect Sinan to upgrade it all for the new aqueduct system that would lead into his city. The result was a series of magnificent aqueducts that criss-cross the roads near Kemerburgaz. The Maglova Aqueduct is the largest, with its exceptional strength and structure, but it is no longer accessible to tourists. The newly restored Uzunkemer still stands right across a busy road in the forest.
