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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 125 book, music and video shops
Best book, music and video shops in Ankara
The 10 most notable book, music and video shops in Ankara, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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Dost Kitabevi Yayınları
Karanfil Sokak 11
154 m from 15 Temmuz Kızılay Milli İrade, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.391, percentile 100 of 125
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2
Evrensel Kitabevi
Karanfil Sk. NO: 41/A
429 m from 15 Temmuz Kızılay Milli İrade, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.370, percentile 99.19 of 125
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3
Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık
Mithatpaşa Caddesi 73B
664 m from 15 Temmuz Kızılay Milli İrade, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.368, percentile 98.39 of 125
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4
Ankara Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri
Sağlık 1. Sokak 17A
290 m from Sıhhiye, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.364, percentile 97.58 of 125
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5
Palme Kitabevi Gölbaşı
Cemal Gürsel Caddesi, 275. Sk. No:8/c
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.353, percentile 96.77 of 125
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6
Gunduz Kitabevi
413. Sk. 5/A
108 m from Demetevler, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.345, percentile 95.97 of 125
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7
Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları Bahçelievler Kitabevi
Yukarı Bahçelievler Mahallesi Aşkabat Caddesi No:15
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.345, percentile 95.16 of 125
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8
Ogretmen Kirtasiye
Yıldız petshop, 512. Sk. No:7 D:B
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.339, percentile 94.35 of 125
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9
Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları Ulus Müze Kitabevi
Hacı Bayram Mahallesi Çam Sokak No:3
481 m from Ulus, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.335, percentile 93.55 of 125
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10
Berdelacuz Sahaf
Maltepe metrosuna 4-5 dk. yürüme, Şht. Barış Kırıcı Sk. no: 14/A
252 m from Maltepe, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.329, percentile 92.74 of 125
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).