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Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Anatolia
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The Gunpowder Empires

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Overview

Jelali bands threatened Bursa from 1003/1595, and in 1017/1608 Kalenderoğlu came to plunder the city. ¹

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Occurred at: Bursa

People and things also explored

Yesil Mosque, Bursa· The capital moves from Bursa to Edirne· The great Bursa earthquake of 1855· Bursa in the Turkish war of independence· Conquest of Bursa· Jem Sultan hailed at Bursa for eighteen days· The Karamanid siege of Bursa· Mehmed I returns the capital to Bursa

Sources

Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 1398

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islam.museum contributors. “Kalenderoğlu plunders Bursa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/kalenderoglu-plunders-bursa-1017/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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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.