Yıldırım is a metropolitan district in the centre of Bursa

Bursa Province

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...

 in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. The district was named after Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I

Bayezid I

Bayezid I was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1389 to 1402. He was the son of Murad I and Valide Sultan Gülçiçek Hatun.-Biography:Bayezid was born in Edirne and spent his youth in Bursa, where he received a high-level education...

. It was founded in 1987 and it has a size of 399 km². The Sultan Bayezid I

Bayezid I

Bayezid I was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1389 to 1402. He was the son of Murad I and Valide Sultan Gülçiçek Hatun.-Biography:Bayezid was born in Edirne and spent his youth in Bursa, where he received a high-level education...

's nickname was Yıldırım, which means thunderbolt in Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

.

Location

Yıldırım, which is located at the foot of the Mt. Uludağ

Uludag

Uludağ , the ancient Mysian Olympus, is a mountain in Bursa Province, Turkey, with an altitude of . It is a popular center for winter sports such as skiing, and a national park of rich flora and fauna...

 is 399 square kilometers (km²) and 150-155 metres in elevation. Kestel

Kestel

-Archaeology:Kestel is a probable site of Bronze Age tin mining in the Taurus Mountains in ancient Anatolia . Tin was as scarce and valuable as petroleum is today in the Bronze Age. It was a vital ingredient of bronze, used with copper to make the alloy.K...

 and Gürsu

Gürsu

Gürsu is a town and district of Bursa Province of Turkey....

 are located west of Yıldırım, and Demirtaş, a subdistrict of Osmangazi

Osmangazi

Osmangazi is the biggest and central city of Bursa Province which is the fourth biggest province in Turkey. With a population of 700.000 it's the 8th biggest city of Turkey as well....

, lies to the north. South of Yıldırım is Mt. Uludağ and to the north are relatively flat lands. The Bursa

Bursa Province

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...

-Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

 highway passes through the Yıldırım district.

Teleferik (pictured to the right) is the cable car built from Bursa to Mt. Uludağ

Uludag

Uludağ , the ancient Mysian Olympus, is a mountain in Bursa Province, Turkey, with an altitude of . It is a popular center for winter sports such as skiing, and a national park of rich flora and fauna...

 on 29 June 1963. It was built by Von Roll, a Swiss

Switzerland

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 company.

Management

The district Yıldırım with the Osmangazi

Osmangazi

Osmangazi is the biggest and central city of Bursa Province which is the fourth biggest province in Turkey. With a population of 700.000 it's the 8th biggest city of Turkey as well....

 and Nilüfer constitutes the Bursa metropolitan municipality

Metropolitan municipality

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 . It has 66 quarters

Quarters

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 and a village called Cumalıkızık

Cumalikizik

Cumalıkızık is a village located 10 kilometers east of Bursa, at the foot of Mount Uludağ. Its history goes back to the Ottoman Empire's foundation period. The village is within the border of the Yıldırım county. Cumalıkızık was founded by a waqf village...

, where it is possible to examine the characteristics of Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 architecture. This settlement's historical architectural uniqueness has totally been preserved, and has made the Yıldırım sub-province famous. Concerning population, Yıldırım is bigger than many cities in Turkey. According to the 2000 census

2000 Census

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, it has a population of 629.702 . 30% of Bursa's population lives in Yıldırım district.

Historical places

Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque) , Yeşil Türbe

Yesil Türbe

Yeşil Türbe is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey. It was built by Mehmed's son and successor Murad II following the death of the sovereign in 1421...

 (Green Tomb), Bayezid I Mosque and complex (külliye

Külliye

Külliye, deriving from the Arabic word "kull" is a term which designates a complex of buildings, centered around a mosque and managed within a single institution, often based on a vakıf , and composed of a medrese, a darüşşifa, kitchens, bakery, hammam, other buildings for various benevolent...

) (Yıldırım Camii ve külliyesi), Emir Sultan Mosque

Emir Sultan Mosque

Emir Sultan Mosque is a mosque in Bursa, Turkey. First built in the 14th century, it was rebuilt in 1804 upon the orders of the Ottoman Sultan Selim III, and re-built again in 1868, along slightly varying plans each time....

  and Cumalıkızık

Cumalikizik

Cumalıkızık is a village located 10 kilometers east of Bursa, at the foot of Mount Uludağ. Its history goes back to the Ottoman Empire's foundation period. The village is within the border of the Yıldırım county. Cumalıkızık was founded by a waqf village...

village .