Places to visit in Bilecik
4 places from Bilecik province are on the map: Söğüt, Bilecik, Metristepe (İnönü), and Osmaneli & Sakarya Valley. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Söğüt
Can a state be founded on a dream? If the Ottoman chronicles are to be believed, the answer must be yes… Legend has it that one night, while young Osman was a guest in the house of Sheikh…
See on the map →Bilecik
“Let the people live, so that the state may live.” These words, attributed to Sheikh Edebali, have passed from mouth to mouth for centuries as the essence of the art of governing. But did…
See on the map →Metristepe (İnönü)
“There you defeated not only the enemy, but the nation’s ill fate as well.” This was Mustafa Kemal Pasha’s reply to İsmet Pasha, who on April 1, 1921 had telegraphed from Metristepe that…
See on the map →Osmaneli & Sakarya Valley
Can a town give its name to a city’s gate? In the walls of İznik, the gate facing east is called the Lefke Gate; because the road leading out of it went to the valley carved by the Sakarya…
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