KARACABEY

History: 

It is known that the settlement in the region dates back to the Mysians, who migrated to the area in the 12th century BC, and that there was a city called Miletopolis within the borders of Karacabey then. The first settlers in Karacabey and its surroundings were the Etiler, who claimed to have come from Central Asia about 4000 years ago.

After the Etiler, Karacabey experienced the periods of the Mysians, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Alexander the Great, the Kingdom of Pergamum and the Romans. According to this information, Karacabey was known as Mihaliç at that time.

Seeing that the Ottomans had captured the Lipodium (Uluabat) Castle in 1336, the Tekfurs of Kalemastarya (Kirmastı-Mustafakemalpaşa) and Mihaliç (Karacabey) came with gifts. They declared their loyalty to Orhan Gazi, and thus, Karacabey was included within the borders of the Ottoman Principality. Karacabey, which lived peacefully under Ottoman rule for about 6 centuries, was occupied by the Greeks after World War I on July 6, 1920, and was liberated from occupation when our army entered the city on September 14, 1922.

The city's main historical monuments are the Ulu Mosque, built by Sultan Murat I, the Karacabey Mosque (Imaret Mosque), built by Karaca Bey in 1457, and the Ottoman-era Issız Han on the Karacabey-Bursa road and the Uluabat coast.

Geographical Structure

It is located in the south of the Marmara region. The district area is 1247 square kilometres. Karacabey is a district of Bursa Province in the southern Marmara section of the Marmara Region. Mudanya and Bursa surround it to the east, Mustafakemalpaşa and Susurluk to the south, Manyas to the southwest, Bandırma, a district of Balıkesir, to the west, and the Marmara Sea to the north. The fact that it is located at the intersection of the Bursa-Çanakkale, Bursa-Balıkesir and İzmir highways increases the importance of the district.