Green Bursa
You can trace Bursa's beginnings back to the legend of Solomon and the Queen of sheba,to its foundation in the name of king Prusias,(whom Hannibal,commonder of Carthage,served) or if you prefer even as far back as Olympos.
How ever it is obvious that the city of Bursa really acquired an identity of its own at the beninning of the Ottoman period; the conquest of the city by Orhan Ghazi transformed Bursa from a city ruled from 1071 onw ards,the mosque formed the nucleus of Anatolian cities and the bazaar also influenced the fabric of the city.
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