Tavşanlı is a town and district of
Kütahya Province
Kütahya Province ( tr, ) is a province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is 11,875 km in size, and the population is 571,554 (2014). In 1990, Kütahya had a population of 578,000.
The neighboring provinces are Bursa to the northwest, B ...
in the
Aegean region 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 Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
.
Tavşanlı is a typical Aegean town where a government-owned coal mine company attracted thousands of settlers from surrounding cities and villages which made the town reach the population of 101.848 (according to government data from 2021).
The town is also famous for its notable number of jewellery shops and is also famous for popular snack called "
leblebi
Leblebi ( tr, leblebi; acm, لبلبي, leblebi; ar, قضامة, Qdameh, Qudamah; fa, نخودچی, Nokhodchi; scn, Càlia) is a snack made from roasted chickpeas, common and popular in Iran, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece ...
" (roasted chick peas).
Name
Tavşanlı was told to be named after a hunting party held by the
Ottoman prince
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 ...
, in which he is said to have hunted 7 rabbits. Thus the name Tavşanlı meaning "the place with rabbits" was given to the area.
Places of interest
west of Kütahya lies the ancient town of Tavşanlı with a notable 12th-century
Seljuq mosque called Ulucami. to the north in a side valley of the
Adronos stream stands a
Phrygian rock monument Dikilitaş, a huge volcanic partly smoothed rock with geometric designs.
Notable people
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Mustafa Kalemli, physician and politician
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Kemal Zeytinoğlu, engineer and politician
References
External links
District governor's official website
Pictures from private source of the city
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Districts of Kütahya Province