Place:Bursa, Turkey

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NameBursa
Alt namesBursasource: Wikipedia
Khodavendikyarsource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) II, 666
Prousasource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeProvince
Coordinates40.167°N 29.083°E
Located inTurkey
See alsoMarmara,removed name of Region
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Armutlu
Bursa
Deveċikonağıi
Deṁirtaş
Geml̇ik
Görükle
Gürsü
Harmancıik
Karacabey
Keles
Mudanya
Mustafakemalpaşa
Nicaea
Orhaneli
Orhangażi
Söğütalan
Sŏgukpıinar
Tahtaköprü
Yenişehir
Yenıice
Çaltıilıibük
Çalıi
İnegöl
Ṫiṙilye
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Bursa Province is a province in western Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya to the south, Bilecik and Sakarya to the east, Kocaeli to the northeast and Yalova to the north. The province has an area of 11,043 km2 and a population of 3,187,000 (2010 est). It was 2,125,140 according to the 2000 census. In 1990 it had a population of 1,603,137. The traffic code is 16. The city of Bursa was the capital of the Ottoman State until the conquest of Edirne. Most part of the province remainesin Marmara Region except the districts of Büyükorhan, Harmancık, Keles and Orhaneli, which are in the Aegean Region.

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