According to legend the founder of the city was Polyhemos, one of the Argonauts who set out the seek the Golden Fleece. He remained behind on the shorese of Mysia, and gave the name Prusa to this city set amidst lush green woods, orchards and fields. Historians, however, tell us that the city was built by Hannibal, King of Carthage, who took refuge with Prusias I
Following many centuries under successive Bithynian, Roman and Byzantine rule, Bursa was taken after a long siege by Orhan Bey, son of the Turkish ruler Osman Bey, in 1326. In 1335 the city became the first Ottoman capital.nth century photographs to illustrate the changes that have taken place in this city? Portraits of its people, and pictures of its buildings, streets, shops and bazaars, silk manufacture, and spas carry us back in time.
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