🌆 Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire

Museums, Memorials & Monuments Türkiye Asia

Bursa and the village of Cumalıkızık, located in northwestern Türkiye, together represent the early institutional and territorial consolidation of the Ottoman Empire. Bursa, established as the empire's first major capital in the early 14th century, contains numerous early Ottoman monuments including the Yildirim (Bayezid I) Külliye commissioned in the late ...