Karacabey is a town and district of

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in the

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. It is located just west of the

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near its confluence with the Adirnaz River. District of Karacabey borders districts of

Mudanya Mudanya (Mudania, el, τα Μουδανιά, ''ta Moudaniá'' l. (the site of ancient Apamea Myrlea) is a town and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is located on the Gulf of Gemlik, part of the southern coast of t ...

and Nilüfer from east, ones of

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and

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from south, one of

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from southwest and

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from west. It is sited on the ancient town of

Miletopolis Miletopolis ( grc, Μιλητόπολις) or Miletoupolis (Μιλητούπολις) was a town in the north of ancient Mysia, at the confluence of the rivers Macestus and Rhyndacus, and on the west of the lake which derives its name from the t ...

. Karacabey is an industrial area as well as an agricultural one. It is known as the plantation area of a special variety of onions. There are many famous food factories around Karacabey such as Nestle and many varieties of vegetables and fruits are planted in Karacabey. There is a nearby lake called Uluabat. The

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is 32 km to the north. The town is named for a Turkish soldier during the Ottoman era named Karaca

Bey Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is ...

. The former name of the town was Mihalich Hazlitt, W. '' The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane.''
Macestus
" Whittaker & Co. (London), 1851. Accessed 4 September 2011. ( tr, Mihaliç), after which a cheese was named, while its ancient name was Miletopolis (

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: Μιλητόπολις). Miletopolis was apparently the chief settlement of a group of people called the Milatæ, whose name was hellenized to suggest a Milesian

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. Its people colonized Gargara.Pétridès, S. ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''.
Miletopolis
" Robert Appleton Company (New York), 1911. Accessed 4 September 2011. Miletopolis was a suffragan of

Cyzicus Cyzicus (; grc, Κύζικος ''Kúzikos''; ota, آیدینجق, ''Aydıncıḳ'') was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peni ...

until the 12th or 13th century. Around the end of the twelfth century, it was united with

Lopadium Ulubad or Uluabat, in the Byzantine period Lopadion ( grc, Λοπάδιον), Latinized as Lopadium, is a settlement near the town of Karacabey in the Bursa Province of northwestern Turkey. It was sited on the ancient Miletouteichos. History Ul ...

as an archbishopric. There are two historical mosques in Karacabey, one being from the 14th century.

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Karacabey Governorship

Karacabey Municipality
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