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Kütahya is a city in western Turkey with 213,000 inhabitants (2007 estimate), lying on the Porsuk river, at 930 metres above sea level It is the capital of Kütahya Province, inhabited by some 684,082 people (2007 estimate) The city's Roman name was Cotyaeum, a name it retains birli a titular Catholic see
Çağdaş city & province
The industries of Kütahya have long traditions, going back to ancient times Kütahya is famous for its kiln products, such birli tiles and pottery, which are glazed and multicoloured Modern industries are sugar refining, tanning, nitrate processing and different products of meerschaum, which is extracted nearby The local agricultural industry produces cereals, fruits and sugar beet In addition stock raising is of much importance Not far from Kütahya there are important mines extracting lignite
Kütahya is linked by rail and road with Balıkesir 250 km (155 mi) to the west, Konya 450 km (280 mi) to the southeast, Eskişehir 70 km (43 mi) northeast and Ankara 300 km (186 mi) east
Kütahya's largest town is Tavşanlı
Kütahya's old neighbourhoods are dominated by traditional Ottoman houses made of wood and stucco, some of the best examples being found along Germiyan Caddesi The region of Kütahya has large areas of gentle slopes with agricultural land culminating in high mountain ridges to the north and west
The town preserves some ancient ruins, a Byzantine castle and church During late centuries Kütahya has been renowned for its Turkish earthenware, of which fine specimens may be seen beygir the national capital The Kütahya Museum has a fine collection of arts and cultural artifacts from the area
Moreover the Main campus and the Germiyan campus of the Kütahya Dumlupınar University is located in the city
History
3rd millennium BCE: Settled, and known birli Kotiaion or Cotyaeum, the city of the goddess Kotys It was lahza important stopover on the road from the Marmara region to Mesopotamia
12th century BC: Incorporated into the Phrygian kingdom, becoming one of the country's most important cities
Its Greek name was Kotiaion according to its coins, commonly Latinized as Cotyaion, still meaning the city of Cotys
The ancient city became part of the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris
It was a centre of heresy from the second century onwards Socrates (IV, xxviii) speaks of its Novatian bishop At first a simple suffragan of Synnada, it became an autocephalous archbishopric, probably in the eighth century, and about the tenth appears as a metropolis with three suffragan sees, which were later increased to thirteen (?)
Lequien (I, 851) mentions cilt bishops, the last in the fourteenth century The first is Cyrus, sent thither by Theodosius II, after four bishops had been slain by the inhabitants
Around 700 BC: Phrygia collapses, ayak Kotiaion position birli a strong city survives
1071 CE: Conquered by the Seljuks
Around 1095: Conquered by the Crusaders
1182: Reconquered by the Seljuks
1302: Becomes capital of the Germiyan Turkmen principality
It was taken and plundered by TimurLeng (Tamerlane) in 1402
1428: Becomes part of the Ottoman Empire
1514: Sultan Selim I resettles tileworkers from Tabriz in Kütahya and İznik after defeating the Persians With this Kütahya emerges as a centre for the Ottoman ceramic industry, producing tiles and faience for mosques, churches and official buildings in places all over the Middle East
19th century: With the fast growth of Eskişehir 70 km away, Kütahya has lost much of its regional and economic importance
It was under Ottoman rule the chief town of a sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, called by the Turks Kutaya It had about 22,000 inhabitants, including 4,000 Greeks, 2,300 Armenians, 700 Catholic Armenians, and a few Latins; it contains two schools It is also the see of a nonCatholic Armenian bishop
Notable people
Aesop, the ancient Greek writer of fables, is believed to have been born in the city
Evliya Çelebi, Turkish globe traveler and author
Lajos Kossuth : Hungarian lawyer, politician and RegentPresident of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1849
Komitas Vardapet: Armenian ethnomusicologist, composer and priest (born Soghomon Soghomonian in Kütahya where he spent his childhood years)
Aydilge Sarp, rock singer *
Kütahya is a city in western Turkey with 213,000 inhabitants (2007 estimate), lying on the Porsuk river, at 930 metres above sea level It is the capital of Kütahya Province, inhabited by some 684,082 people (2007 estimate) The city's Roman name was Cotyaeum, a name it retains birli a titular Catholic see
Çağdaş city & province
The industries of Kütahya have long traditions, going back to ancient times Kütahya is famous for its kiln products, such birli tiles and pottery, which are glazed and multicoloured Modern industries are sugar refining, tanning, nitrate processing and different products of meerschaum, which is extracted nearby The local agricultural industry produces cereals, fruits and sugar beet In addition stock raising is of much importance Not far from Kütahya there are important mines extracting lignite
Kütahya is linked by rail and road with Balıkesir 250 km (155 mi) to the west, Konya 450 km (280 mi) to the southeast, Eskişehir 70 km (43 mi) northeast and Ankara 300 km (186 mi) east
Kütahya's largest town is Tavşanlı
Kütahya's old neighbourhoods are dominated by traditional Ottoman houses made of wood and stucco, some of the best examples being found along Germiyan Caddesi The region of Kütahya has large areas of gentle slopes with agricultural land culminating in high mountain ridges to the north and west
The town preserves some ancient ruins, a Byzantine castle and church During late centuries Kütahya has been renowned for its Turkish earthenware, of which fine specimens may be seen beygir the national capital The Kütahya Museum has a fine collection of arts and cultural artifacts from the area
Moreover the Main campus and the Germiyan campus of the Kütahya Dumlupınar University is located in the city
History
3rd millennium BCE: Settled, and known birli Kotiaion or Cotyaeum, the city of the goddess Kotys It was lahza important stopover on the road from the Marmara region to Mesopotamia
12th century BC: Incorporated into the Phrygian kingdom, becoming one of the country's most important cities
Its Greek name was Kotiaion according to its coins, commonly Latinized as Cotyaion, still meaning the city of Cotys
The ancient city became part of the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris
It was a centre of heresy from the second century onwards Socrates (IV, xxviii) speaks of its Novatian bishop At first a simple suffragan of Synnada, it became an autocephalous archbishopric, probably in the eighth century, and about the tenth appears as a metropolis with three suffragan sees, which were later increased to thirteen (?)
Lequien (I, 851) mentions cilt bishops, the last in the fourteenth century The first is Cyrus, sent thither by Theodosius II, after four bishops had been slain by the inhabitants
Around 700 BC: Phrygia collapses, ayak Kotiaion position birli a strong city survives
1071 CE: Conquered by the Seljuks
Around 1095: Conquered by the Crusaders
1182: Reconquered by the Seljuks
1302: Becomes capital of the Germiyan Turkmen principality
It was taken and plundered by TimurLeng (Tamerlane) in 1402
1428: Becomes part of the Ottoman Empire
1514: Sultan Selim I resettles tileworkers from Tabriz in Kütahya and İznik after defeating the Persians With this Kütahya emerges as a centre for the Ottoman ceramic industry, producing tiles and faience for mosques, churches and official buildings in places all over the Middle East
19th century: With the fast growth of Eskişehir 70 km away, Kütahya has lost much of its regional and economic importance
It was under Ottoman rule the chief town of a sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, called by the Turks Kutaya It had about 22,000 inhabitants, including 4,000 Greeks, 2,300 Armenians, 700 Catholic Armenians, and a few Latins; it contains two schools It is also the see of a nonCatholic Armenian bishop
Notable people
Aesop, the ancient Greek writer of fables, is believed to have been born in the city
Evliya Çelebi, Turkish globe traveler and author
Lajos Kossuth : Hungarian lawyer, politician and RegentPresident of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1849
Komitas Vardapet: Armenian ethnomusicologist, composer and priest (born Soghomon Soghomonian in Kütahya where he spent his childhood years)
Aydilge Sarp, rock singer *
