Eskisehir Cycling Tour - 1 | May 2024 | 4K

How about accompanying me on my first city tour, where I visit the main lines of Eskişehir?

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00:00 Start
00:30 Waterfall Park
06:39 Odunpazarı Cemetery
07:55 Historical Odunpazarı Houses
25:07 Aladdin Park
26:55 Hamam Yolu Street
32:52 Famous Helva Maker
35:30 Hamam Yolu Street
37:05 Bridgehead
40:05 Governorship
41:50 Reşadiye Mosque
44:12 İki Eylül Street
46:25 Bridgehead
49:57 Doctors Street
52:32 Porsuk Stream
57:59 Bar Street
1:04:31 Ulus Square
1:05:53 Station Street
1:08:39 Espark
1:10:40 Yılmaz Büyükerşen Boulevard
1:12:36 Eti Street
1:14:22 Vecihi Hürkuş Aviation and Technology Park

NAME OF OUR CITY

Today's Eskişehir province was a city known as Dorylaion in Greek and Dorylaeum in Latin in the Ancient and Middle Ages. In Arabic sources, the name of the city is given as Darauliya, Adruliya and Drusilya. Dorylaion is mentioned in ancient sources as a Phrygian city at the crossroads of important roads, famous for its hot springs and rich with trade, and Doryleos of Eretria is shown as the founder of the city.

It is said that there was a summer palace of Emperor Justinian in the city, which gained importance especially during the Byzantine era. As a result of their trips and research in the region in the 19th century, many travelers and scientists determined that the ruins of Şarhöyük, today known as Şarhöyük, located 3 km northeast of Eskişehir, north of the Porsuk Stream, was the ancient city of Dorylaion. This place is 17 m. It is one of the medium-sized mounds of Central Anatolia, with a height of 450 m and a diameter of 450 m. Here, Prof. on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Anadolu University since 1989. Dr. Archaeological excavations were started by a team headed by A. Muhibbe Darga. During the ongoing excavations, it has been determined that there is a continuous settlement in the mound, going back from the Ottoman Period to the Early Bronze Age.

Dorylaion - Şarhöyük played a major role in protecting Byzantium against the Seljuks, but in 1176, Seljuk Sultan II. After Kılıçaslan defeated the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Komnenos, the city came under the rule of the Seljuks. After this, a new settlement was established to the south of the ruins, near Dorylaion-Şarhöyük, which was ruined and abandoned for a long time. According to W. M. Ramsay, the Dorylaion ruins were most likely called Eskişehir, and this name has survived from that time to the present day.

Eskisehir until the War of Independence

From the information provided by the artifacts found as a result of the archaeological studies, Eskişehir and its region date back to B.C. It is understood that it is an ancient settlement dating back to 3000 years.
B.C. in Anatolia. It is seen that Eskişehir was a principality during the Hittite period, which ruled in 2000, due to its importance and location.
B.C. After 1200, Phrygians entered Anatolia and Eskişehir was founded as a Phrygian city under the name Dorylaion.
After the Phrygians, the city was ruled by the Lydians, B.C. In 546, it came under the rule of the Persians.

Eskişehir in the War of Independence

Eskişehir has been an important commercial, economic and strategic point in every period of history. Wide and fertile plains, the meeting in Eskişehir of natural roads that cut across Anatolia in the west-east and north-south directions, and the military and commercial importance of these roads are among the main reasons why the region always receives immigration and is the scene of wars.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Eskişehir was an independent governorship and had a crowded population along with its surroundings. The railway that came to Eskişehir in the 1890s also developed and followed natural trade routes, and Eskişehir became an intersection point of railways coming from the west and going to the east and south.

The British forces that landed in Istanbul began to occupy places they considered important along the Istanbul-Baghdad railway line, and Eskişehir received its share of this occupation in late January 1919. A British contingent of 520 people established their headquarters around Eskişehir Station.

Three of the 5 important battles of the War of Independence took place in Eskişehir. T.B.M.M. under the leadership of M.Kemal Atatürk. He won the first of the victories that would set an example for the oppressed peoples, in the First İnönü War, in the lands of Eskişehir. Since Eskişehir was one of the key points of the National War of Liberation, it was severely damaged both materially and spiritually during the war. After the liberation, a burned and destroyed city remained, but the determination of the administrators and the people to revive the city did not disappear.