All Posts in Tag: bursa

The Green Tomb (Yeşil Türbe) is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey. It was built by Mehmed’s son and successor Murad II following the death of the sovereign in 1421. The architect Hacı Ivaz Pasha designed the tomb and the Yeşil Mosque opposite to it. Set amid cypresses on…

Inkaya Tarihi Cinar is a very old and large sycamore tree in the Inkaya neighborhood south of Bursa. It is about 600 years old, and is named after Inkaya, one of the first villages of the Ottoman Empire. Its leafy canopy shades a small park, with 13 main branches. It is claimed to be 35…

Iznik is a town and an administrative district in the Province of Bursa, Turkey.It was historically known as Nicaea, from which its modern name also derives. The town lies in a fertile basin at the eastern end of Lake İznik, bounded by ranges of hills to the north and south. The town is only 90…

Cumalıkızık is a village in the Yıldırım district of Bursa Province, located 10 kilometers east of the city of Bursa, at the foot of Mount Uludağ. Its history goes back to the Ottoman Empire’s foundation period. The village is now included within the border of the Yıldırım district as a neighbourhood. Cumalıkızık was founded as…

The Koza Han (Turkish: Koza Hanı, lit. ‘inn of the silk cocoon’) is a historic caravanserai (han) in Bursa, Turkey. It is located in the heart of the city’s historic market district. Bursa, the first capital of the Ottoman Empire, was also its center of silk production and trade. Particularly in the 14th to 16th centuries,…

You need a winter vacation you will not forget definitely you need to choose as a destination the Uludag ski center. There are amazing facilities you can have there to keep yourself busy and to entertain all the period of the time. Ski equipment hire and bike hire are available. You can play table tennis…