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Bursa

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Anatolian city taken by the Ottomans in 1326 CE and their first major capital.

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Region
Anatolia
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Bursa: a city in Anatolia, conquered by the Ottomans in the year 1326 CE, and it was their first great capital. This sentence needs an additional source, since the source recorded in the data is for the coordinates only. 1

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Yesil Mosque, Bursa

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Yesil Mosque, Bursa

Sources

  1. GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Bursa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/bursa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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Yesil Mosque, Bursa

Draft card for the Yesil (Green) Mosque of Bursa, built for Sultan Mehmed I and famed for its green tilework; a landmark of early Ottoman architecture per the cited survey, the page not yet checked.