Yıldırım is a

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that covers 399 km² in the centre of

Bursa ( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...

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. Founded in 1987, it was named after Ottoman Sultan

Bayezid I Bayezid I ( ota, بايزيد اول, tr, I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt ( ota, link=no, یلدیرم بايزيد, tr, Yıldırım Bayezid, link=no; – 8 March 1403) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1389 to 1402. He adopted ...

, whose nickname was Yıldırım ("thunderbolt" in Turkish). It is at the foot of Mt. Uludağ, at 150–155 metres in elevation.

Kestel Kestel is an archaeological site in the Taurus Mountains in Turkey, with important finds related to the study of Tin sources and trade in ancient times. Archaeology Kestel is a probable site of Bronze Age tin mining in the Bolkar range of the ...

and

Gürsu Gürsu is a town and district of Bursa Province of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in ...

are to its west, and the flat lands of Demirtaş, a subdistrict of

Osmangazi Osmangazi is one of the central metropolitan districts of the city of Bursa in Bursa Province, as well as the fourth largest overall municipality in Turkey. The municipality has a population of approximately 778,843 as of 2012. On its own, it wou ...

, are to its north. The

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highway passes through it. The Bursa Uludağ Aerial Lift ( tr, Teleferik, pictured to the right) is an

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serving Mt. Uludağ. Built by the

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company

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and opened on 29 October 1963, the

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was replaced in 2013 by a modern and much bigger capacity

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system by Leitner Group of

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. With

and Nilüfer, Yıldırım constitutes the Bursa metropolitan municipality. Yıldırım has 66 quarters and a village called

Cumalıkızık Cumalıkızık is a village in the Yıldırım district of Bursa Province, located 10 kilometers east of the city of Bursa, at the foot of Mount Uludağ. Its history goes back to the Ottoman Empire's foundation period. The village is now incl ...

, whose well-preserved historical Ottoman architecture attracts many visitors. Yıldırım is one of Turkey's important textile production centers. With a population of 629,702 at the 2000 census, it is also one of Turkey's most populated areas; 30% of Bursa's population lives in the Yıldırım district.

Historical places

Yeşil Mosque The Green Mosque ( Turkish: ''Yeşil Camii''), also known as the Mosque of Mehmed I, is a part of a larger complex (Turkish: külliye) on the east side of Bursa, Turkey, the former capital of the Ottoman Turks before they captured Constantinopl ...

(Green Mosque) *

Yeşil Türbe The Green Tomb ( tr, Yeşil Türbe) is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey. It was built by Mehmed's son and successor Murad II following the death of the sovereign in 1421. The architect Hacı Ivaz Pasha designe ...

(Green Tomb) * Bayezid I Mosque and (

külliye A külliye ( ota, كلية) is a complex of buildings associated with Turkish architecture centered on a mosque and managed within a single institution, often based on a waqf (charitable foundation) and composed of a madrasa, a Dar al-Shifa ("c ...

) complex (''Yıldırım Camii ve külliyesi'') *

Emir Sultan Mosque The Emir Sultan Mosque ( tr, Emir Sultan Camii) is in Bursa, Turkey. First built in the 15th century, it was rebuilt in 1804 for the Ottoman sultan Selim III, and rebuilt again in 1868, the plan of the mosque changing slightly with each rebuild ...

village

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yildirim, Bursa Populated places in Bursa Province