My home in center of BURSA-Turkey, which is 4th biggest city of Turkey, 200 km from Istanbul by car, but 75 minutes by sea bus. Really it is 10 km from seaside and 45 minutes mountain.
Bursa was a capital city of Ottoman empire and it is 2 milllion population.. The city of Bursa, southeast of the Sea of Marmara, lies on the lower slopes of Uludag (Mt. Olympos of Mysia, 2443 meters). The city derives its name from its founder King Prusias, of Bithynia. Its previous antique name was Prussa ad Hypium. It subsequently came under Roman, then Byzantine rule before falling to Orhan Gazi in 1326, when it become the first capital of the Ottoman Empire. Many important Ottoman buildings remain.
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