Area: 4.307 km²
Population: 175.526 (1990)
Traffic Code: 11
Province of Bilecik is located at the southeast of Marmara Region at the intersection locality of Marmara Region, Black Sea Region, Central Anatolia Region and Aegean Region. The oldest known names of the province are Agrilion and Belekoma. Province of Bilecik is the land where the Ottoman Empire is founded. The province is founded around the Sakarya river and is known with the riches of small ponds and creeks and carries the traces of ancient ages.
Districts : Bilecik (centre), Bozüyük, Gölpazarı, Osmaneli, Pazaryeri, Söğüt, Yenipazar.
How to Get
Highway: The bus station is located on the Atatürk Avenue at the city center. Coach Station Tel : (+90 - 228) 212 12 55
Railway: The railway station is at 4 km. distance to city center.
Railway Station Tel: (+90 - 228) 215 80 03
History
The province of Bilecik displays a characteristic of transition climate between the severe and low precipitant terrestrial climate of the Central Anatolia Region and warm and precipitant climate of the Marmara and Black Sea Region. The known history of the Bitinia Region starts with the nation of Thyns originated from the nations of Thrace whom inhabited the region in BC 1950's. The region was then entered under the dominance of Egypt, Hittite, Frig, Kimmer, Lydia, Persian, Macedonian civilizations and Bitinya Kingdom, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire. After the settlement of a tribe leaded by Ertuğrul Bey from the Kayı Clan of the Turkish nation to the environ of Söğüt and vicinity, the first steps of the foundation of the Ottoman Empire was taken.
Where to Eat
Most of the local food varieties are composed of pastries. Some part of the local folk cooks their own breads. Pitta bread, Twined bread and hodalak are some of the locally cooked breads.
The local folk also prepares food varieties like macaroni, soup with dried yogurt, kuskus macaroni and erişte (vermicelli) by themselves. Büzme, nohutlu tavuklu mantı (meat pastry with chickpea and chicken), keşkek, ovmaç soup, mercimekli mantı (meat pastry with lentil), kesme hamur (cut pastry), keklik kebabı (partridge kebab), köpük helvası (foam sweat made of cereals) could be counted among the authentic food varieties of Bilecik region.
What to Buy
You should buy Kınık village Earthen Products.
Don't Leave Without
- Participating the Culture and Art Festival of Ahilik, Remembrance of Ertuğrul Gazi and Liberation of Söğüt, Bilecik from enemy occupation.
- Visiting Şeyh Edebalı, Ertuğrul Gazi, Dursun Fakıh Mausoleums and Watch Tower
- Visiting the Ethnography Museum
Sites
Registered Immobile Cultural and Natural Heritages in Bilecik
Sites
Archeological Sites: 26
Urban Sites: -
Natural Sites: 5
Historical Sites: -
Other Sites
Archeological and Natural Sites: 1
Archeological and Historical Sites: 1
Total: 33
Cultural (at Single Construction Scale) and Natural Heritages: 220
TOTAL: 253
