Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
Çanakkale
Çanakkale is a city and seaport in Turkey on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. It is the seat of Çanakkale Province and Çanakkale District.Biga District.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 57,125 (2021). The town lies at an elevation of . The center of COMU Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences is in Biga.
History
Within the area of Biga (at Karabiga) is the site of the ancient city of Pegaea (), also known as Pegae or Pegai (Πηγαί, "the Springs") until late
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...
times (in Crusader sources it is also known as SpigaTDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi /ref>). Archaeologists have not yet established how far back the site has been occupied."Başmakçı Kültür (Bashmakchi Culture)" /ref> In ancient times, Pegaea, located on the plain of Adrastea on the border between the
Troad
The Troad ( or ; , ''Troáda'') or Troas (; , ''Trōiás'' or , ''Trōïás'') is a historical region in northwestern Anatolia. It corresponds with the Biga Peninsula ( Turkish: ''Biga Yarımadası'') in the Çanakkale Province of modern Tur ...
and
Mysia
Mysia (UK , US or ; ; ; ) was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor (Anatolia, Asian part of modern Turkey). It was located on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. It was bounded by Bithynia on the east, Phrygia on the southeast, Lyd ...
, was sometimes included as part of one and sometimes the other. Since coming under Ottoman rule in 1364 it has been known as Biga. Under the Ottomans, it was the seat of a
sanjak
A sanjak or sancak (, , "flag, banner") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans also sometimes called the sanjak a liva (, ) from the name's calque in Arabic and Persian.
Banners were a common organization of nomad ...
.
Tourism
Among the tourist sites in the district are the Ilıcabashı spa, Parion (Kemer), Priapos (Karabiga castle)
International relations
Biga is twinned with:
* Xanthi, Greece ''(since 2000)''
File:Balıkkayamağara.jpg, Biga panorama from Balıkkaya
File:Öğle vakti Karabiga.JPG, Kocakum shores in Karabiga
File:Granicus River.jpg, Biga Çayı (''Granicus River'') in Biga