Yıldırım
Yıldırım is a district of Bursa.
Yıldırım
Yıldırım is a district of Bursa.
Yıldırım is a municipality and district of Bursa Province, Turkey. Its area is 110 km2, and its population is 655,856 (2022). It covers part of the city centre of Bursa. Founded in 1987, it was named after Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, whose nickname was Yıldırım ("thunderbolt" in Turkish). It is at the foot of Mt. Uludağ, at 150, 155 metres in elevation. Kestel and Gürsu are to its west, and the flat lands of Demirtaş, a subdistrict of Osmangazi, are to its north. The Bursa-Ankara highway passes through it. With Osmangazi and Nilüfer, Yıldırım covers the Bursa agglomeration. The Bursa Uludağ Aerial Lift (Turkish: Teleferik, pictured to the right) is an aerial lift serving Mt. Uludağ.
Sources: Wikipedia · Yıldırım, Bursa · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Bursa
Bursa was the first Ottoman capital and remains a city of mosques, covered bazaars and thermal springs. Uludağ rises behind it, Cumalıkızık preserves an Ottoman village, and İskender kebab and candied chestnuts are local signatures.
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