Located to the west of the kaza Bursa and on the southern shore of the Sea of Marmara, the kaza bore the name of the town Mikhalitsa (also: Mikhalitsi – ‘Little Mikhail’; Tr: Mihalıç, today: Karacabey) since the 14th/15th centuries. The pre-Ottoman toponym is unknown. In the late 19th century Greek sources erroneously identified Mikhalitsa with the ancient city of Miletopolis (now M.Kemalpaşa-Melde). While the Slavs who came to the region in the 7th century were Hellenized, those who came in the Ottoman period retained their original Slavic identity and took refuge in the Bulgarian Kingdom in 1914. The biggest Slavic [...]
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Kaza Kirmasti / Kermasti / Kremasti – Κρεμαστή
Located southwest of the city and the kaza Bursa, the administrative center of the kaza, the town Kirmasti lies on both banks of the Edrenos Čay (Rhyndacus), now called the Mustafa Kemal Paşa Çay. The origin of the name, often wrongly written Kirmāsli̊, which points to a Greek Κερμαστὴ (Kermasti) or Κρεμαστὴ (Kremasti), is uncertain, nor is it known what ancient town was here. Perhaps the Kremastis in the Troas mentioned in Xenophon (Hist, iv, 8), is to be connected with it.[1] The name Kirmasti is an anagram of the original Greek toponym Kremasti (Κρεμαστή) and is first mentioned in an [...]
Kaza Bandırma / Panderma / Panormos
The Toponym Bandırma was the main port of the Ottoman sancak Karesı (Karası) / Balıkesir. The name of the gulf to the east of the ancient city of Kyzikos was probably given to the port established there later.[1] It was known from the period of late antiquity by the Greek name of Pánoramos (‘sheltered port’), which was later shortened to Panormo (Grk.: Pánormos). Pánormos has the same name as the capital city of Palermo in Sicily. The name form Pandırma (Panderma) / Bandırma (also Banderma) is documented since the year 1665. Bandırma (Panormos): Convent of the Holy Trinity (on the day of [...]
Kaza Balıkesir / Παλαιόκαστρο – Palaiokastron
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial (Berlin), commemorative plate for Balıkesir Kaza Balıkesir During Byzantine period, the small town which had become increasingly neglected was known as Palaiokastron (Greek: Παλαιόκαστρο – ‘Old Castle’). Also, when the Turkmens from Central Asia arrived to Mysia, they called the town and adjacent region Balak Hisar because of the remnants of the castle. In the early 14th century, Balıkesir became an important town as the administrative center of the Turkmen principality, the Beylik (Beyliği) Karası, which was soon absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in 1345. Under the name of Karası previous Palaeokastron was the capital of that Beylik and [...]
Sancak Karesı / Karası / Balıkesir
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Karesı (Karası) / Balıkesir [...]