Uluabat
Uluabat | |
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Coordinates: 40°12′10″N 28°26′14″E / 40.2029°N 28.4373°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Bursa |
District | Karacabey |
Population (2022) | 478 |
Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Uluabat, in the
Latinized as Lopadium, is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Karacabey, Bursa Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 478 (2022).[2] It is the site on the ancient town Miletouteichos.[3]
History
Uluabat is located on the banks of the
archbishopric.[4] In 1147, the French and German contingents participating in the Second Crusade united at Lopadion.[4]
Following the
fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the fortress was briefly occupied by the Latin Empire, who returned after the Battle of the Rhyndacus in 1211 and until ca. 1220.[4] It then returned to the Empire of Nicaea, and remained in Byzantine hands until it was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1335.[4] The area was a site of confrontation during the Ottoman Interregnum as well: sometime in March–May 1403, Mehmed I defeated his brother İsa Çelebi in the Battle of Ulubad, and consolidated his control over the Asian heartland of the Ottoman Empire around Bursa.[5] In January 1422, the armies of Mehmed's son Murad II and Mustafa Çelebi confronted each other in the area, until Murad engineered the defection of Junayd of Aydın and the other supporters of Mustafa, forcing the latter to retreat to Europe, where he was captured and executed.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- TÜİK. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ a b c d e f ODB, "Lopadion" (C. Foss), p. 1250.
- ^ Kastritsis 2007, pp. 89–92.
- ^ Magoulias 1975, pp. 152–160.
Sources
- Kastritsis, Dimitris (2007). The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402-13. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-15836-8.
- ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
- Magoulias, Harry, ed. (1975). Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks, by Doukas. An Annotated Translation of "Historia Turco-Byzantina" by Harry J. Magoulias, Wayne State University. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1540-2.