Kütahya Tourist Map With Attractions Visiting Places

According to ancient sources, coins and inscriptions, the ancient name of Kütahya was “Kotiaeion Cot (Cotiaeion). Strabon, a famous ancient geographer, states that this name means Kent City of Kotys ”. Kotys is a name of a commander sent by the Romans to Anatolia in 38 AD. A coin found in the Kütahya Archaeological Museum is referred to as oti Koti.. The name Kütahya has been given by the Turks in comparison with the old one. The population of the city is 249,558 compared to 2013. Its population increased from 17,000 in 1927 to 131,000 in 1990, 167,000 in 2000, 213,000 in 2008, 235,000 in 2010, and 228,000 in 2014. He declined. The main places of the city to be seen today Kütahya Castle, Cumhuriyet Street (the new name of the road of love) in the center of the city has become the symbol of the vase made of tiles and the historical Germiyan Street, Clock Tower, Zafertepe Monument, the Historic Government House (currently used as a courthouse) ), Phrygian Valleys.

history

Although the date of establishment cannot be determined, its history dates back to 3000 BC. According to ancient sources, Kütahya's name in ancient times is Kotiaeon, Cotiaeum and Koti. The oldest inhabitants settled in the province are the Phrygians. The Phrygians who came to Anatolia in 1200 BC entered the lands of the Hittite Empire and organized as a state. In 676 BC the Cimmerians were ruled by the Phrygian King III. They defeated Midas and dominated Kütahya and its surroundings.

When Alyattes became King of Lydia, the Cimmerian rule took its place in Lydian rule. In 546 BC, the Persians defeated the Lydian Army and invaded Anatolia. Alexander, who defeated the Persians near the Biga Stream in 334 BC, established superiority in the region. After Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he moved to Antigonos, one of the commanders of Kütahya and its region. In 133 BC he entered the Roman rule. It became the episcopacy center.

The Byzantine Emperor Romanus Diogenes, who defeated Alp Arslan in the Battle of Malazgirt in 1071, was brought back to Kütahya and his eyes were blinded. In 1078, the Anatolian Seljuk State founded Kutalmışoğlu Süleyman Şah Kütahya'yı also seized. In 1097, he was attacked by the Crusaders. II. Kılıç Arslan took Kütahya back with the lost lands. II. After Kılıç Arslan, the city passed into the hands of Byzantium again due to the fights of the throne, and finally, during the time of Alaeddin Keykubad I (1233), it was included in the Seljuks. In 1277, II. Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev gave Kütahya region to Yıldırım Bayezid, the son of the Ottoman Sultan Murat I, State Hatun, daughter of Germiyanoğlu Süleyman Şah. (1381) The territory of the Germiyanoğulları Principality was given to the Ottomans as the dowry of the State Hatun. (Including Kütahya and the surrounding area) 1402 During the Ankara War, Timur defeated Bayezid in a heavy defeat and took Kütahya II. He gave it back to Mr. Yakup. Kütahya then passed to the Ottomans and became the Sancak Center.

Kütahya during the Ottomans

The Great Mosque of Kutahya
In 1381, Kütahya and the region was given as dowry to the Ottomans Yıldırım Bayezid served as governor here. While Murad I went to Kosovo Expedition, he appointed governors to various places for the preservation of Anatolia; He appointed Sarı Timurtaş Pasha to replace Bayezid. Although Yıldırım Bayezid was invaded by Karamanoğulları in 1391 while he was passing to Rumeli, Yıldırım was away from Karamanoğulları on his return from Gallipoli. After the Ankara War in 1402 by Timurlenk Germiyanoğlu II. The lands returned to Mr. Yakub II. He remained in Germiyanoğulları until Jacob's death. In 1428, II. With the will of Yakub Bey, Kütahya and all the Germiyanoğulları lands were finally transferred to the Ottomans and Osman Çelebi, the son of Umur Bey, the son of Kara Timurtas Pasha, was appointed as the governor.

Kütahya was ruled as a province until the appointment of İshak Pasha during the reign of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror and was attached to the Anatolian Beylerbeyligi, which was headquartered in Ankara. İshak Pasha stayed in Kütahya in 1451 after Karaman and Menteşeoğulları solved their problems, and since 1826, until the annihilation of the Anatolian Beylerbeylik, Kütahya became the center of the Anatolian Beylerbeylik.

Anatolia Province; Kütahya, Saruhan (Manisa), Aydın, Kastamonu, Menteşe (Muğla), Bolu, Ankara, Karahisar-ı Sahip (Afyonkarahisar), Çangırı (Çankırı), Teke (Antalya), Hamit (Isparta-Burdur), Sultanönü (Eskişehir), Karesi (Balıkesir) and Bursa Sanjak.

In the time of Kanûni, the Anatolian province had ten pounds or one million pounds. In accordance with this organization, the Anatolian province was divided into 299 fiefdoms and 7166 groomers, including 17,000 equipped cavalry with groom and fighter soldiers.

Sultan II. During the reign of Beyazit, Shah Ismail pro-Sahkulu rebelled in Kutahya. This rebellion was suppressed in 1511.

Geography

Kütahya, Yellice Mountain (formerly Acemdagi) was established on the northern skirt, on the southern edge of the Kütahya Plain. Qatar Water from Bah passes through the plain and may be 3 km northwest of the city. It joins the Porsuk River, a large branch of the Sakarya River. The city was founded in a place rising from the plain to the south. Alayunt, Balıkesir Railway station height of 935 m, the market section rises to 970 m. The elevation exceeds 1000 m on the Hisar Hill, where the city remains of an inner castle. The city is located along a creek valley between this hill and Hidirlik Hill. The old core of the city is in front of Hisar Hill and important historical monuments are found in this part. Houses lean on the slopes of the hills, and especially new neighborhoods spread towards the plain. In the new districts, the streets and streets are flat, and in the flat and wide old districts, narrow, cobbled and often sloping. Kütahya is connected to Bursa (Marmara Region) and Balıkesir (Tavşanlı) in the west, Çavdarhisar (Aegean coasts) in the southwest and Aegean Region via Gediz, to Konya and the Mediterranean coasts in the southeast, to Eskişehir and Bilecik regions in the northeast. This situation caused the city to be chosen as a lively mansion and an important administrative center during the Ottoman period. While the Anatolian railways were built in the late 19th century, Kütahya was not directly on this road, but was connected to the main line by a short branch line. The extension of the railroad to Balıkesir during the Republican era increased the vitality of the city. In the brick and tile quarries and flour mills, sugar factories (1954) and nitrogen factories (1961, expansion 1966) were added to the Republican era, and tile-making was revived.