3-077-686 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Broussa, in Asia Minor, the ancient Turkish capital: bird's-eye view of Broussa; Set Bachi, and Mosque of Yeshil Djami; the Hissar Gate; Mosque of Oulou Djami; Tomb of Sultan Orkhan; Tomb of Ghazi Osman, 1890. 'Broussa was founded two centuries before the Christian era, by Prusias, King of Bithynia, from whom it took its name, subsequently corrupted into "Broussa." It became a Roman or Graeco-Roman city, and fell into the hands of the Turcomans, after a ten-years siege, in the year 1327 A.D.: and here the first six Turkish Sultans have their tombs, which are visited with devout veneration by "the Faithful." In fact, Broussa is regarded almost as a Holy City; and the grandeur of its mosques equals, if it does not surpass, many of those in Constantinople. As specimens of the early Turkish architecture, Saracenic in their type, there is nothing in the East precisely like them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.