Yıldırım is a
metropolitan district that covers 399 km² in the centre of
Bursa in
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 Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. 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 and
Gürsu
Gürsu is a town and district of Bursa Province of Turkey
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are to its west, and the flat lands of Demirtaş, a subdistrict of
Osmangazi, are to its north. The
Bursa-
Ankara
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highway passes through it.
The
Bursa Uludağ Aerial Lift ( tr, Teleferik, pictured to the right) is an
aerial lift
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serving
Mt. Uludağ. Built by the
Swiss company
Von Roll Holding
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and opened on 29 October 1963, the
aerial tramway
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was replaced in 2013 by a modern and much bigger capacity
gondola lift
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system by Leitner Group of
Italy
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.
With
Osmangazi and
Nilüfer, Yıldırım constitutes the Bursa
metropolitan municipality.
Yıldırım has 66
quarters and a village called
Cumalıkızık, 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
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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)
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Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb)
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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
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Cumalıkızık village
References
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Populated places in Bursa Province