Kurşunlu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of
Gemlik,
Bursa Province,
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
. Its population is 1,574 (2022). It lies on the
Gulf of Gemlik
The Gulf of Gemlik ( tr, Gemlik Körfezi) is an inlet of the Sea of Marmara in the Marmara Region, Turkey, Marmara region of Turkey. The gulf is located in the southwestern part of the sea. Mudanya, Gemlik and Armutlu, Yalova, Armutlu are the majo ...
(
Marmara Sea), at the foot of a range of hills of about . It was an independent municipality until it was merged into the municipality of Gemlik in 2008.
History
In the village, there is an ancient monastery called
St. Aberkios Monastery
The St. Aberkios Monastery is a former Greek Orthodox church in Kurşunlu ( el, Elegmi, Elegmoi), northwestern Turkey. The church was the ''katholikon'' of the 12th-century monastery of Elegmi. The monastic ''typikon'', issued in 1162, makes cle ...
.
Monastery of St. Aberkios
The Byzantine Legacy This monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...
is identified with the Byzantine-era Elegmoi monastery The monastery of Heliou Bomon ( gr, Ἡλίου Βωμῶν, , altars of the Sun) was active during the middle Byzantine period, in the 10th–12th centuries, located in modern Kurşunlu.
Heliou Bomon is first attested in the 10th century, although ...
.
References
Neighbourhoods in Gemlik District
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