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History Of Bursa
Bursa () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of Turkey's automotive production takes place in Bursa. As of 2019, the Metropolitan Province was home to 3 238 618 inhabitants, 2 283 697 of whom lived in the 3 city urban districts (Osmangazi, Yıldırım and Nilüfer) plus Gürsu and Kestel. Its rich history provides various places of interest in Bursa. Bursa became the capital of the Ottoman Empire (back then the Ottoman Beylik) from 1335 until the 1360s. A more recent nickname is ("") referring to the parks and gardens located across the city, as well as to the vast, varied forests of the surrounding region. Bursa has a rather orderly urban growth and borders a fertile plain. The mausoleums of the early Ottoman sultans are located in Bursa, and the city's main landmarks include numer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilüfer River
The Nilufer or Niloufer River () is a List of rivers of Turkey, river in Bursa Province, Turkey. From its source near Uludağ, Mount Uludağ (the classical Mysian Olympus) and flowing past the city of Bursa, the river tends to the northwest along its course of . In Turkish, ''nilüfer'' means "Nymphaeaceae, water lily." The river may have been named for the flowers or for Nilüfer Hatun, a wife of the list of Ottoman sultans, Ottoman sultan Orhan. The district of Nilüfer, Bursa, Nilüfer in Bursa Province is named after the river. Today, the Doğancı-1 Dam crosses it. Writing in the 19th century, John Cramer (priest), John Cramer considered the Nilufer to be the classical Odrysses though noted there were some problems with this. (). C. Foss, in compiling Map 52 for the Barrington Atlas, silently rejects this identification, preferring the modern Kara Dere (Karacay; a left tributary of the Simav_River). Its plain was known as Mygdonia and formed the Persian satrapy of Dascylium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
