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Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Civil Engineering

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5974977 ↗
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ITU Faculty of Civil Engineering is the first faculty of Istanbul Technical University. Its foundation date is considered as the starting of the engineering education in Ottoman Empire.

Faculty has three divisions.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 32-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1727. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Istanbul, Technical and University providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Civil Engineering” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.