Bandırma district, Balıkesir

What does this district dossier connect?

Bandırma brings together place records, related historical events and living-culture themes within Balıkesir and Northern Aegean. Records are connected with Ionia & Aeolis, Hellenistic era, The Aegean today, Ottoman era, National Struggle & Republic, Roman era, Eastern Roman era. Current research layers include table and production, culture and memory, links to the present, deniz-doga.

History

• From Havran Koca Seyit Village to Marmara Island Marble Quarries and Manyas Bird Sanctuary: 275 kg Victory Shell, Proconnesian Quarries, and 266 Bird Species
• Export of Proconnesian Marble and Sarcophagi to Roman and Byzantine Capitals (500 BCE)

Today

• Manyas Bird Sanctuary National Park and Daskyleion Persian Satrapy

• From Havran Koca Seyit Village to Marmara Island Marble Quarries and Manyas Bird Sanctuary: 275 kg Victory Shell, Proconnesian Quarries, and 266 Bird Species
• Export of Proconnesian Marble and Sarcophagi to Roman and Byzantine Capitals (500 BCE)

Table

• From Havran Koca Seyit Village to Marmara Island Marble Quarries and Manyas Bird Sanctuary: 275 kg Victory Shell, Proconnesian Quarries, and 266 Bird Species

Culture

• From Havran Koca Seyit Village to Marmara Island Marble Quarries and Manyas Bird Sanctuary: 275 kg Victory Shell, Proconnesian Quarries, and 266 Bird Species
• Export of Proconnesian Marble and Sarcophagi to Roman and Byzantine Capitals (500 BCE)

Province guide

Balıkesir