Balıkesir Province

sights.uz lists 24 historic and notable places in Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Among them are 16 monuments, 1 eco-tourism sites and 7 museums.

Cyzicus

Cyzicus ( SIZ-ik-əs; Ancient Greek: Κύζικος, romanized: Kúzikos; was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the…

Lake Kuş

Lake Kuş (Turkish: Kuş Gölü, lit. 'Bird Lake') or Lake Manyas (Turkish: Manyas Gölü) is a lake in western Turkey, located in the Bandırma region. It is a shallow nutrient-rich…

Adramyttion

Adramyttium (Greek: Ἀδραμύττιον Adramyttion, Ἀδραμύττειον Adramytteion, or Ἀτραμύττιον Atramyttion) was an ancient city and bishopric in Aeolis, in modern-day Turkey. It was…

Dascylium

Dascylium, Dascyleium, or Daskyleion (Ancient Greek: Δασκύλιον, Δασκυλεῖον), also known as Dascylus, was a town in Anatolia some 30 kilometres (19 mi) inland from the coast of…

Antandrus

Antandrus or Antandros (Ancient Greek: Ἄντανδρος) was an ancient Greek city on the north side of the Gulf of Adramyttium in the Troad region of Anatolia. Its surrounding…

Zagan Pasha Mosque

Zagan Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Zağnospaşa Camii) is a historic mosque in Balıkesir, northwest Turkey. It is known as the place, where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk delivered his famous…

Thebe

Thebe Hypoplakia (Ancient Greek: Ὑποπλακίη Θήβη, romanized: Hypoplakíē Thḗbē), also Placian Thebe (Ancient Greek: Πλακία Θήβη, romanized: Plakía Thḗbē), was a city in ancient…

SS Bandırma

SS Bandırma was an Ottoman mixed-freight ship, which became famous for her historical role in taking Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) from Constantinople (today-Istanbul) to Samsun…

Museum of the Nationalist Forces in Balıkesir

Museum of the Nationalist Forces in Balıkesir (Turkish: Balıkesir Kuva-yi Milliye Müzesi) is a museum in Balıkesir, Turkey, dedicated to the irregular Kuva-yi Milliye…

Burhaniye National Forces Culture Museum

Burhaniye National Forces Culture Museum (Turkish: Burhaniye Kuva'i Milliye Kültür Müzesi) is a museum in Burhaniye district of Balıkesir Province in western Turkey.

Saatli Mosque

Agios Ioannis (Greek: Άγιος Ιωάννης, Turkish: Ayos İanni Kilisesi), meaning Saint John, is a former Greek Orthodox church built in 1850 in the coastal town of Ayvalık (known as…

Church of the Taxiarchs, Cunda

The Church of the Archangels or Taxiarchs' Church (Turkish: Taksiyarhis Kilisesi) is a historically significant Greek Orthodox church, dating back to 1873 and located in Cunda…

Hamidiye Mosque, Cunda

Hamidiye Mosque is a mosque located in Cunda, which belongs to Ayvalık in the province of Balıkesir, Turkey. The construction of the mosque commissioned by Ottoman Sultan Abdul…

Yeşilli Mosque (Balıkesir)

The Green Mosque is a historic mosque located in the Old Quyumcular neighborhood of Balıkesir.

Edincik Grand Mosque

Edincik Grand Mosque, a grand mosque located in the town of Edincik, district of Bandırma, province of Balıkesir. According to its inscription it was commissioned by Ildutan Bin…

Karesi Atatürk House

Karesi Atatürk House, located in the Kuvayi Milliye Neighborhood of Karesi District, Central Balıkesir, on an area of approximately 8400 m² next to the Balıkesir Regional Traffic…

Bandırma Museum

Bandırma Museum is an archaeological museum in the Paşabayır neighborhood of Bandırma, in Balıkesir province. Its creation was first pushed forward by a local civic association…

Kurşunlu Mosque (Edremit)

Kurşunlu Mosque, on Kurşunlu Boulevard in the Kapıcıbaşı quarter, is counted as the oldest building standing in Edremit, with local accounts tracing its origin to the thirteenth…

Ayvalık Rahmi M. Koç Museum

The Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Ayvalık occupies a former olive oil factory that is roughly two centuries old, one of the town's significant surviving pieces of industrial heritage…

Taxiarchs Church (Ayvalık)

The Taxiarchs Church in Ayvalık is considered the oldest known church in the town and today functions as a monument museum. Its building history unfolded in three main phases: a…

Haydar Çavuş Mosque

Haydar Çavuş Mosque in Bandırma is remembered chiefly for an episode from the final days of the Greek occupation of the town during the Turkish War of Independence. As occupying…

Yıldırım Mosque, Balıkesir

Yıldırım Mosque is regarded as the oldest mosque in Balıkesir, built in the late fourteenth century under the patronage of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, known as Yıldırım,…

Alaca Mescit (Balıkesir)

Alaca Mescit is a modest Ottoman-period mosque in central Balıkesir whose exact date of construction and founder are unknown, since its original foundation inscription has not…

Hamidiye Mosque (Balıkesir)

The Hamidiye Mosque stands in the Karesi district at the heart of Balıkesir city, in northwestern Turkey. It was established in 1908, in the final years of Ottoman rule, and…