FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Importance and Location of Bursa
CHAPTER 1: BURSA; THE GATEWAY OF CIVILIZATIONS / 21 The First Traces of Civilization / Bursa; In Mythology / The Foundation of Prusa / Whose City in Bursa Turks Entering the Bursa Region / From Dynasty to a Regular State / Conquest of Bursa! An Empire is Born in Bursa! The First Martyr Sultan / A Sultan Lıke the Lightning / Civil Wars /The Sultan that Re-Established the State / A Sultan Like A Dervish / The Spiritual Capital Bursa! Depression Years of Bursa Problems of the Bursa in Republic Days / Bursa Survived Many Catastrophes / Atatürk and Bursa CHAPTER 2: THE GOVERNORS OF BURSA AND THE DISTRICTS / 61 Province Adrnınıstratıon from Hudavendigâr fili Today / Municipality Administration from Çardak to Metropolitan / Districts of Bursa: Osmangazi / Yıldırım / Nilüfer / Gürsu / Kestet / Gemlik / Mudanya Büyükorhan / Harmancık / İnegöl / Iznik / Karacabey / Keles Mustalakemalpaşa / Orhaneb Orhangazi / Yenişehir CHAPTER 3: BURSA; TRANSFORMING THOROUGH LIFE / 109 A City of immigrants / Comribution of the Non-Muslims / The City where Cultures are Kneaded Everything Starts with Well-Being / From Madrasa to School / Bursa Becomes Civil / Trademark City Bursa CHAPTER 4: BURSA FOLKLORE "Being Bom and Living in Bursa" / 129 Customs of Bırth / Customs of Wedding / Customs of Death / Traditıonal Folk Dances / Local Clothing Cookery / Traditional Handicrafts / Artisans of Bursa! Tamiyes of Bursa • Ramadan Culture in Bursa and Ulu Mosque CHAPTER 5 FIRSTS OF BURSA! 157 The City cf initiations / Ton Fi-st Consul of the Christianity/ The First Coin of Ottomans / First Madrasa First Bridge / First Mosque with University / First Hospital/ First Minaret with Fountain / First Workshop of Wool and Silk Weaving / First Bridge with a Bazaar / First Small Mosque with Fountain /The First Standard of the World / First Silk Factory / First School of Sericulture / The First and the Only Folk Dance without Music First Döner Kebab / First Mineral Water / First Theatre Building / First Museum of Anatolia First Interurban Transportation / First Mountaineering Club / First Aerial Railway of Turkey CHAPTER FAMOUS FACES OF BURSA / 171 Ahmed Pasha / Behice Boran / Celal Bayar! Cemal Nadir Güler/ Din Chrysostom / Duhani / Emir Sultan Erdinç Celikol/ Fahri Çelebi / Hacı ivaz Pasha / İbrahim Balaban / İlhan Irem! İsmail Belig / İsmail Hakkı Butak smail Hakkı Bursevi / İsmet Bozdağ / Kamil Koç! Kazım Baykal/ Larni Çelebi / Mehmet Şakir Feraicizade / Mehmet şemsettin Ulusoy! Mehmed Tahir of Bursa! Müzeyyen Senar/ Oruç Bey / Procopios of Caesarea / Sabiha Gökcan / Süleyman Çelebi! Şefik Bursalı / Oftade Mehmet Muhiyiddin Efendi! Yıldırım Gürses / Zeki Müren / Artists of Bursa! Writers and Intellectuals of Bursa CHAPTER SYMBOLS OF BURSA / 185 Values that Constitutes Bursa! Green Bursa! Monumental Trees / Erguvan (Redbudi Festival; From Past: tv Present / From Olympos to Monk Mountain; Utudag / After all Bursa is Water / Thermal Springs of Bursa Velvet Fruit of Bursa; Peach / Good Deed to Eat; Roasted Chestnut / Delight Inyented by Bursa; Chestnut Candy / Kebab Known Worldwide: Bursa Iskender / Kayhan Kebab with Pita / Inegol Meat Balls /Wonderful Smelling Wild Strawberry / Kemalpaşa Dessert / Cheese Loaf; Mahlac / Gemlik Olives Hacivat and Karagöz Sword and Shietd Dance / Aeriat Railway / Iznik Pottery / Bursa Knives / Bursa Cloth Arap Şükrü Street Covered Bazaar CHAPTER 8: BRANDS OF BURSA / 227 Brands that Enrich Bursa! Uludağ Fizzy Drinks / Uludağ Mineral Water / Kamil Koç! İpekis Company Tolon Washing Machines / özdilek Towels / Unmatched Brand in Chestnut: Kafkas! Swivel Kebab of İskender / Kırcılar Leather / Sönmez Holding! Bursa Cement / Baykal Machinery / A World's Brand in Klaxon: Seger / The Address of the Kitchens: İnoksan / Renault! Sayat Milk Powder / Vatan Canned Foods Tamek Canned Foods /Tat Canned Foods /Tofaş / Bursa Birlik Shipping / Pırlant Watches / Aroma! Green Alligator; Bursaspor CHAPTER 9: BURSA; THE CITY OF TOURISM / 243 Tourism / Green Bursa / Living Ottoman Village Cumalıkızık / Mini Village of 2000 Years Old Derekızlık Village / Saitabat Waterfall / Alaçam Canyon and Waterfall Aras Waterfall / Doğancı Dam Trilye (Zeytinbağıl / Kumkaya İ Uluabat Lake / Golyazı Village / Ulubat Bird Sanctuary / Iznik Lake Land of Mosaic; Iznik / Su Uctu Waterfall İ Ayvaini Cave / Bursa Beaches Recreation Spots of Bursa Nature Wall< Tracks/ Youth Camps/ Botanical Park! Bursa Zoo / Water-Skııng Lagoon Alternative Tourism Thermal Tourisrn / Hunting Tourism / Belief Tourism / Expo Tourism / Entertainment and Festival Tourism CHAPTER 10: BURSA ARCHITECTURE / 267 Bursa Between Two Gates / Monuments of Bursa / Synthesis in Architecture / Materials Used in Monuments / Technique of Bursa Archway and Bursa Monuments / Ornamentation / Castles and Monuments / MosqUes and Prayer Places / Ulu Mosque / Churches and Temples /Tombs / Tophane; The Sol Silvered Dome / lulamic Monasteries and Dervish Lodges / Madrasas / Khans and Covered Bazaars Bridges Harıams and Hot Springs / Fountains / Natural Monuments CHAPTER 11: BURSA KULLIYAS IISLAMIC SOCIAL COMPLEXESI / 317 Orhan Gazi KJIllya / Hudavend.gşr Kulliya Yidirim Kullıya / Emir Sultan Kuthya / Yesil Kulliya Muradiye CHAPTER 12: BURSA MUSEUMS / 363 Bursa Cıty Museum / Museum of Archaeology / Karagöz Museum / Museum of Forestry / Museum of Atatürk Mansion / Museum of Hüsnü Züber House / Ulumay Traditional Clothing and Jewellery Museum 17th Century Ottoman House Museum / Bursa Sanitarian Museum / Museurn of Turk-Istarı Works Museum of Tofas Anatolian Cars / Hünkar Villa Museum / Bursa Press Museum / Cumalıkızık Museum of Ethnography / Museum of Mudanya Armistice House / Museum of Yenişehir Semaki House / Celal Bayar Musoum / Izık Museurr / Hagia Soohia Museum / Inegöl City Museum CHAPTER 13: BURSA ECONOMICS / 393 Bursa as Manufacturer/ Hıstorıcal Development of Industry in Bursa! Today's Industry of Bursa / Textile Industry Automotive Industry / Agnculturai Structure / Cornmerce / Bursa as the Exporting Basa CHAPTER 14: BURSA AS BECOMING A METROPOL ON THE ROAD TO EUROPE / 413 Bursa in Figures / Ropulation of Bursa Grows Continuously / Step by Step to Modern Bursa! Bursa in the Process of Urbanization / Steps Taken on the Way to Planned Urbanızation / krom Field Road to Subway Turkey Association of Healthy Cities; Targeb Tü Create “Healthy Cities" / Contemporary Bursa / Sisters of Bursa on the Road to Europe / Capital of Europe in 1991: Bursa / [yen of Europe on Bursa / Future of Bursa is being Constructed / New Centres of Attraction in Bursa / Trademark City Bursa / History Comes to Light City of Festivals; Bursa CHAPTER 15: BURSA; THE CITY OF ART AND CULTURE / 449 Midpoint of Bursa is a Theatre / Contemporaı-y Theatre Works / Theatre Stages in Bursa / Cinema Culture in Bursa / Movie Houses in Bursa! Coffee and Coffeehouse Culture in Bursa! Literature in Bursa: Bursa in Literature / Contributions of Bursa tü Literature / Bursa Press / Cultural Places of Bursa! Ahmet Vefik Pasha Theatre İ Tayyare Cultural Centre / Open Air Theatre / City Museum Movie Theatres / Libraries / City Library City Theatre / Gökdere Cultural Centre / Haraccıoğlu Madrasa Cultural Centre / Karabaş-: Veli Art and Cultural Centre / Ordekli Hammmam Art and Cultural Centre / Barış Manco Cultural Centre / Uludağ University Cultural Centre / Konak Culture and Art House Centre / Fethiye Cultural Centre / Uğur Mumcu Cultural Centre / Molla Yegan Cultural Centre / Atatürk Congress and Convention Centre CHAPTER 16: FESTIVAL TOURISM / 489 Every Corner of Bursa is a Festival! Bursa Culture Co. / The Art Event That Became A Classical; Bursa Festival / International Golden Karagöz Folk Dances Festival! International Festival of Children and Youth Theatre / International Pupped and Shadow Plays Festival International Bursa Silk Road Film Festival The Green-White Bursa Concerts / Ramadan Activities and Events / Bursa Photography Days Bursa Lıterature Days / From Turkish Classical Music tv Symphony / Festival of Street Plays of Children The Redbud Festival! Blues Music Festival /The Festival Goes on in Bursa
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Importance and Location of Bursa
CHAPTER 1: BURSA; THE GATEWAY OF CIVILIZATIONS / 21 The First Traces of Civilization / Bursa; In Mythology / The Foundation of Prusa / Whose City in Bursa Turks Entering the Bursa Region / From Dynasty to a Regular State / Conquest of Bursa! An Empire is Born in Bursa! The First Martyr Sultan / A Sultan Lıke the Lightning / Civil Wars /The Sultan that Re-Established the State / A Sultan Like A Dervish / The Spiritual Capital Bursa! Depression Years of Bursa Problems of the Bursa in Republic Days / Bursa Survived Many Catastrophes / Atatürk and Bursa CHAPTER 2: THE GOVERNORS OF BURSA AND THE DISTRICTS / 61 Province Adrnınıstratıon from Hudavendigâr fili Today / Municipality Administration from Çardak to Metropolitan / Districts of Bursa: Osmangazi / Yıldırım / Nilüfer / Gürsu / Kestet / Gemlik / Mudanya Büyükorhan / Harmancık / İnegöl / Iznik / Karacabey / Keles Mustalakemalpaşa / Orhaneb Orhangazi / Yenişehir CHAPTER 3: BURSA; TRANSFORMING THOROUGH LIFE / 109 A City of immigrants / Comribution of the Non-Muslims / The City where Cultures are Kneaded Everything Starts with Well-Being / From Madrasa to School / Bursa Becomes Civil / Trademark City Bursa CHAPTER 4: BURSA FOLKLORE "Being Bom and Living in Bursa" / 129 Customs of Bırth / Customs of Wedding / Customs of Death / Traditıonal Folk Dances / Local Clothing Cookery / Traditional Handicrafts / Artisans of Bursa! Tamiyes of Bursa • Ramadan Culture in Bursa and Ulu Mosque CHAPTER 5 FIRSTS OF BURSA! 157 The City cf initiations / Ton Fi-st Consul of the Christianity/ The First Coin of Ottomans / First Madrasa First Bridge / First Mosque with University / First Hospital/ First Minaret with Fountain / First Workshop of Wool and Silk Weaving / First Bridge with a Bazaar / First Small Mosque with Fountain /The First Standard of the World / First Silk Factory / First School of Sericulture / The First and the Only Folk Dance without Music First Döner Kebab / First Mineral Water / First Theatre Building / First Museum of Anatolia First Interurban Transportation / First Mountaineering Club / First Aerial Railway of Turkey CHAPTER FAMOUS FACES OF BURSA / 171 Ahmed Pasha / Behice Boran / Celal Bayar! Cemal Nadir Güler/ Din Chrysostom / Duhani / Emir Sultan Erdinç Celikol/ Fahri Çelebi / Hacı ivaz Pasha / İbrahim Balaban / İlhan Irem! İsmail Belig / İsmail Hakkı Butak smail Hakkı Bursevi / İsmet Bozdağ / Kamil Koç! Kazım Baykal/ Larni Çelebi / Mehmet Şakir Feraicizade / Mehmet şemsettin Ulusoy! Mehmed Tahir of Bursa! Müzeyyen Senar/ Oruç Bey / Procopios of Caesarea / Sabiha Gökcan / Süleyman Çelebi! Şefik Bursalı / Oftade Mehmet Muhiyiddin Efendi! Yıldırım Gürses / Zeki Müren / Artists of Bursa! Writers and Intellectuals of Bursa CHAPTER SYMBOLS OF BURSA / 185 Values that Constitutes Bursa! Green Bursa! Monumental Trees / Erguvan (Redbudi Festival; From Past: tv Present / From Olympos to Monk Mountain; Utudag / After all Bursa is Water / Thermal Springs of Bursa Velvet Fruit of Bursa; Peach / Good Deed to Eat; Roasted Chestnut / Delight Inyented by Bursa; Chestnut Candy / Kebab Known Worldwide: Bursa Iskender / Kayhan Kebab with Pita / Inegol Meat Balls /Wonderful Smelling Wild Strawberry / Kemalpaşa Dessert / Cheese Loaf; Mahlac / Gemlik Olives Hacivat and Karagöz Sword and Shietd Dance / Aeriat Railway / Iznik Pottery / Bursa Knives / Bursa Cloth Arap Şükrü Street Covered Bazaar CHAPTER 8: BRANDS OF BURSA / 227 Brands that Enrich Bursa! Uludağ Fizzy Drinks / Uludağ Mineral Water / Kamil Koç! İpekis Company Tolon Washing Machines / özdilek Towels / Unmatched Brand in Chestnut: Kafkas! Swivel Kebab of İskender / Kırcılar Leather / Sönmez Holding! Bursa Cement / Baykal Machinery / A World's Brand in Klaxon: Seger / The Address of the Kitchens: İnoksan / Renault! Sayat Milk Powder / Vatan Canned Foods Tamek Canned Foods /Tat Canned Foods /Tofaş / Bursa Birlik Shipping / Pırlant Watches / Aroma! Green Alligator; Bursaspor CHAPTER 9: BURSA; THE CITY OF TOURISM / 243 Tourism / Green Bursa / Living Ottoman Village Cumalıkızık / Mini Village of 2000 Years Old Derekızlık Village / Saitabat Waterfall / Alaçam Canyon and Waterfall Aras Waterfall / Doğancı Dam Trilye (Zeytinbağıl / Kumkaya İ Uluabat Lake / Golyazı Village / Ulubat Bird Sanctuary / Iznik Lake Land of Mosaic; Iznik / Su Uctu Waterfall İ Ayvaini Cave / Bursa Beaches Recreation Spots of Bursa Nature Wall< Tracks/ Youth Camps/ Botanical Park! Bursa Zoo / Water-Skııng Lagoon Alternative Tourism Thermal Tourisrn / Hunting Tourism / Belief Tourism / Expo Tourism / Entertainment and Festival Tourism CHAPTER 10: BURSA ARCHITECTURE / 267 Bursa Between Two Gates / Monuments of Bursa / Synthesis in Architecture / Materials Used in Monuments / Technique of Bursa Archway and Bursa Monuments / Ornamentation / Castles and Monuments / MosqUes and Prayer Places / Ulu Mosque / Churches and Temples /Tombs / Tophane; The Sol Silvered Dome / lulamic Monasteries and Dervish Lodges / Madrasas / Khans and Covered Bazaars Bridges Harıams and Hot Springs / Fountains / Natural Monuments CHAPTER 11: BURSA KULLIYAS IISLAMIC SOCIAL COMPLEXESI / 317 Orhan Gazi KJIllya / Hudavend.gşr Kulliya Yidirim Kullıya / Emir Sultan Kuthya / Yesil Kulliya Muradiye CHAPTER 12: BURSA MUSEUMS / 363 Bursa Cıty Museum / Museum of Archaeology / Karagöz Museum / Museum of Forestry / Museum of Atatürk Mansion / Museum of Hüsnü Züber House / Ulumay Traditional Clothing and Jewellery Museum 17th Century Ottoman House Museum / Bursa Sanitarian Museum / Museurn of Turk-Istarı Works Museum of Tofas Anatolian Cars / Hünkar Villa Museum / Bursa Press Museum / Cumalıkızık Museum of Ethnography / Museum of Mudanya Armistice House / Museum of Yenişehir Semaki House / Celal Bayar Musoum / Izık Museurr / Hagia Soohia Museum / Inegöl City Museum CHAPTER 13: BURSA ECONOMICS / 393 Bursa as Manufacturer/ Hıstorıcal Development of Industry in Bursa! Today's Industry of Bursa / Textile Industry Automotive Industry / Agnculturai Structure / Cornmerce / Bursa as the Exporting Basa CHAPTER 14: BURSA AS BECOMING A METROPOL ON THE ROAD TO EUROPE / 413 Bursa in Figures / Ropulation of Bursa Grows Continuously / Step by Step to Modern Bursa! Bursa in the Process of Urbanization / Steps Taken on the Way to Planned Urbanızation / krom Field Road to Subway Turkey Association of Healthy Cities; Targeb Tü Create “Healthy Cities" / Contemporary Bursa / Sisters of Bursa on the Road to Europe / Capital of Europe in 1991: Bursa / [yen of Europe on Bursa / Future of Bursa is being Constructed / New Centres of Attraction in Bursa / Trademark City Bursa / History Comes to Light City of Festivals; Bursa CHAPTER 15: BURSA; THE CITY OF ART AND CULTURE / 449 Midpoint of Bursa is a Theatre / Contemporaı-y Theatre Works / Theatre Stages in Bursa / Cinema Culture in Bursa / Movie Houses in Bursa! Coffee and Coffeehouse Culture in Bursa! Literature in Bursa: Bursa in Literature / Contributions of Bursa tü Literature / Bursa Press / Cultural Places of Bursa! Ahmet Vefik Pasha Theatre İ Tayyare Cultural Centre / Open Air Theatre / City Museum Movie Theatres / Libraries / City Library City Theatre / Gökdere Cultural Centre / Haraccıoğlu Madrasa Cultural Centre / Karabaş-: Veli Art and Cultural Centre / Ordekli Hammmam Art and Cultural Centre / Barış Manco Cultural Centre / Uludağ University Cultural Centre / Konak Culture and Art House Centre / Fethiye Cultural Centre / Uğur Mumcu Cultural Centre / Molla Yegan Cultural Centre / Atatürk Congress and Convention Centre CHAPTER 16: FESTIVAL TOURISM / 489 Every Corner of Bursa is a Festival! Bursa Culture Co. / The Art Event That Became A Classical; Bursa Festival / International Golden Karagöz Folk Dances Festival! International Festival of Children and Youth Theatre / International Pupped and Shadow Plays Festival International Bursa Silk Road Film Festival The Green-White Bursa Concerts / Ramadan Activities and Events / Bursa Photography Days Bursa Lıterature Days / From Turkish Classical Music tv Symphony / Festival of Street Plays of Children The Redbud Festival! Blues Music Festival /The Festival Goes on in Bursa
