Robert College, Constantinople

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Robert College, Constantinople was a pioneering American-founded Protestant educational institution in Istanbul that became one of the most prestigious schools in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.

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Robert College, Constantinople canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf boarding school
college
educational institution
high school
accreditedBy Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools NERFINISHED
affiliation American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Robert College of Constantinople NERFINISHED
campusFeature historic stone buildings
overlooks the Bosphorus
campusTransferredTo Turkish state NERFINISHED
chartered 1860
city Istanbul
country Ottoman Empire
Turkey
educationalLevel secondary education
tertiary education
educationalModel liberal arts college
established 1863
formerName Robert College NERFINISHED
foundedBy American missionaries
American philanthropists
Christopher Rhinelander Robert NERFINISHED
Cyrus Hamlin NERFINISHED
fundingSource American donations
Protestant missionary societies NERFINISHED
governedBy Board of Trustees based in the United States
languageOfInstruction English
Turkish
locatedIn Constantinople NERFINISHED
Istanbul
Rumeli Hisarı NERFINISHED
locatedOn European side of the Bosphorus
mergedInto Boğaziçi University NERFINISHED
mergerDate 1971
notableFor Protestant missionary educational work in the Ottoman Empire
educating political and intellectual elites of the Balkans and the Middle East
pioneering American-style liberal arts education in the Ottoman Empire
prestige in Ottoman and Turkish education
oneOf first American college founded outside the United States
oldest American schools outside the United States
opened 1863
region Bosphorus NERFINISHED
religiousAffiliation Protestantism
servedPopulation students from modern Turkey
students from the Balkans
students from the Middle East
students from the Ottoman Empire
successorInstitution Boğaziçi University NERFINISHED
Robert College (Turkish high school) NERFINISHED
type private school

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Cyrus Hamlin associatedWith Robert College, Constantinople
American College for Girls in Istanbul mergedInto Robert College, Constantinople
this entity surface form: Robert College
American College for Girls in Istanbul successor Robert College, Constantinople
this entity surface form: Robert College
American College for Girls in Istanbul campusSharedWith Robert College, Constantinople
this entity surface form: Robert College