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Bursa
Bursa Province, Turkey · Asia
About Bursa
Bursa sits on the route: 10 minutes from Yıldırım.
Bursa is in Bursa Province, Turkey, with about 3.1 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Yıldırım, about 4 km away.
Bursa (greek: Προύσα) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. It is the fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region after Istanbul. According to 2025 end of year estimate, the province has a population of 3,263,011 while Bursa city has aRead more
population of around 2.5 million. Bursa is one of the centers of Turkey's automotive production, becoming an industrial center of the country. The city provides various places of interest.
Historically, Bursa was known as Prusa or Prousa (Ancient Greek: Προῦσα), or Prusa near Olympus or Prusa under Olympus (Προῦσα ἐπὶ τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ, Προῦσα πρὸς τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ). The city became the capital of the Ottoman Empire (back then the Ottoman Beylik) from 1335 until the 1360s.
A more recent nickname is Yeşil Bursa ("Green Bursa") 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 numerous edifices built throughout the Ottoman period. Bursa also has thermal baths, old Ottoman mansions, palaces, and several museums. Mount Uludağ, known in classical antiquity as the Mysian Olympus or, alternatively, Bithynian Olympus, towers over the city and has a ski resort. Bursa is historically known to be a safe haven for LGBTQ people.
The shadow play characters Karagöz and Hacivat, according to some stories, are based on historic personalities who lived and died in Bursa in the 14th century.
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Bursa is in Bursa Province, Turkey, about 4 km from Yıldırım.
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- Population
- 3,101,833
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Turkey
- Region
- Bursa Province
- Timezone
- Europe/Istanbul
- Coordinates
- 40.1956, 29.0601
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