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unusual facts about Yenişehir, Bursa


Şehzade Ahmet

Finally, the forces of Selim and Ahmet fought a battle near Yenişehir, Bursa on April 24, 1513.


Ali Suavi

Ali Suavi (1838–1878) worked as a teacher at Bursa elementary school and preached at Sehzade Mosque in Istanbul; writer at Philip Efendi’s newspaper Muhbir; worked in different positions at offices in Simav, Plovdiv and Sofia.

Apamea

Apamea Myrlea, formerly Myrlea and Brylleion, in Bithynia, on the Sea of Marmara; currently near Mudanya, Bursa Province, Turkey

Armistice of Mudanya

The Armistice of Mudanya was an agreement between Turkey (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) on the one hand, and Italy, France and Britain on the other hand, signed in the Ottoman town of Mudanya, in the province of Bursa, on 11 October 1922.

Bağlarbaşı

Bağlarbaşı, Osmangazi, a neighborhood of the town of Osmangazi in the district of Bursa, Bursa Province

Bekir Sami Kunduh

Later in his career he served successively as governor of Van, Trabzon, Bursa, Beirut and Halep.

Bertrandon de la Broquière

At Bursa he joined a company of European merchants, a Spaniard and three Florentines, and followed them to Pera.

BMFMS

Sibiu Stock Exchange, known as Bursa Monetar Financiarã şi de Mãrfuri Sibiu in Romanian.

Bursaite

Close to its discovery grounds, it commonly occurs in Uludag, Turkey, around a metamorphic scheelite deposit near Bursa.

Bursaria

The name is derived from the Latin word bursa (purse) which relates to the shape of its seed capsules.

Elections for Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey

The number of metropolitan centers was three in 1984 (Ankara, İstanbul and İzmir) and eight in 1989 (with Adana, Bursa, Gaziantep, Kayseri and Konya).

Evliya Çelebi Way

(Heavy urbanisation prevents the Way entering either Istanbul, from where he set out in 1671, or Bursa).

Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu

Having returned to Turkey, she joined the Regional State Symphony Orchestra in Bursa, and later became lecturer for piano and harp at the Anadolu University in Eskişehir.

Geyve

Geyve is relatively close to many important cities in Turkey; 179 km to Istanbul, 30 km to Adapazari, 75 km to Izmit, 139 km to Bursa, 156 km to Eskisehir, 167 km to Bolu according to Google Maps.

History of the Jews in Turkey

The Sephardi Jews were allowed to settle in the wealthier cities of the empire, especially in the European provinces (cities such as: Istanbul, Sarajevo, Salonica, Adrianople and Nicopolis), Western and Northern Anatolia (Bursa, Aydın, Tokat and Amasya), but also in the Mediterranean coastal regions (for example: Jerusalem, Safed, Damascus, Egypt).

İş Bank commercial featuring Atatürk

To find a suitable location for the take representing the features of the era, three separate teams searched İstanbul, Edirne, Bursa, İzmir and Antalya.

İsmail Hakkı

Bursalı İsmail Hakkı or İsmail Hakkı Bursevî (1653-1725), Ottoman lyricist, sheikh of the Celvedi Tekke in Bursa.

Jelveti

Celvetîyye Tariqat or Jelveti is the name of a Sufi order that was founded by "Akbıyık Sultan", a murid of Hacı Bayram-ı Veli in Bursa as "The tariqat of Bayramiyye-î Celvetîyye" and later reorganized by the Turkish saint Aziz Mahmud Hudayi.

Kamal Mehdi Abdullayev

In 1994-1995 he was professor of Turkish language and Literature” in Bursa.

Karahacılı

Karahacılı, Mersin, a village in Yenişehir district of Mersin Province

Kaytazzade Mehmet Nazım

In 1884, Nazım worked as an Ottoman official in the public service of the Ottoman Empire in Chios, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa.

Kostadin Vidolov

In 1999 Vidolov was signed by Botev as an amateur: the club couldn not afford to pay Bursaspor the fee for a transfer, and Vidolov was not wanted in Bursa anymore.

Küçük Mustafa

Although unsuccessful in the siege of Bursa, the co-capital of the empire, Küçük Mustafa captured İznik (Nicaea of antiquity), another important city in the Anatolia.

Laz people

The other group fled the Russian expansion later in the 19th century and settled in Adapazarı, Sapanca, Yalova and Bursa, in western and eastern parts of the Black Sea and Marmara regions, respectively.

Manya Shochat

In World War I, the Turks deported the Shochats and others who were Russian nationals to Bursa, in Turkey.

Matija Ban

He first lived and worked on the island of Halki (Heybeliada), near Istanbul (Constantinople); Bursa; and the metropolis of Constantinople.

Mükrime Hatun

The most distinguished nobles of the land escorted the young girl across the mountains to the former Ottoman capital of Bursa, where the judges, the ülema and the sheikhs of the religious orders came to meet her in solemn procession and then onward across the Dardanelles.

Murat Belge

He is the son of political journalist Burhan Asaf Belge (who was once married to Hungarian-American socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor from 1937 to 1941), nephew of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, and the grandson of a former governor of Bursa.

Nuri Berköz

Upon the death of his father a while after their arrival at Bursa, he and his younger brother Mahmud first enrolled with the Bursa Military Junior High School (Bursa Askerî Rüştiyesi ), then Bursa Military High School (today Işıklar Military Air Force High School, Işıklar Askerî Hava Lisesi ).

Recep Altepe

Recep Altepe, (born 1959, Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and the current mayor of Bursa.

Stojan Novaković

In addition to political works, Novaković published several travelogues, on Constantinople (Pod zidinama Carigrada), Bursa (Brusa) and Turkey-in-Europe (S Morave na Vardar).

Tevfik Fikret Ucar

Two years later, he received first price award on Symbol Design Award for Bursaray Bursa, city railway transportation system competition.

Turunçlu

Turunçlu, Mersin, a village in Yenişehir district of Mersin Province, Turkey

Yatagan

In Ottoman period, yatagans were also made in all the major cities of the Ottoman Empire, particularly Constantinople, Bursa and Filibe.

Zafer Algöz

In 1975, He attended acting classes which were held by Bursa State Theatre and received a theatrical education.


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