Eğerce, Mudanya

Eğerce
Eğerce
Village
Country	Turkey
Province	Bursa Province
Population (2010)
• Total	221
Time zone	UTC+3
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Eğerce is a village in the Mudanya district of Bursa Province in Turkey.[1]

The village was present during Ottoman Period and archival evidence suggest that the village is more than 420 years old. In the 17th Century the village was a Christian village and the name of it was "Eğerciler" which meant "saddle-makers" in Turkish. The village was providing sheep to the capital in the beginning of the 17th Century.[2]

References

Turkstat
Yılmaz, Gülay (1 December 2015). "The Devshirme System and the Levied Children of Bursa in 1603-4". Belleten (in Turkish). 79 (286): 901–930. doi:10.37879/belleten.2015.901. ISSN 0041-4255.

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[1] Turkstat

[2] Yılmaz, Gülay (1 December 2015). "The Devshirme System and the Levied Children of Bursa in 1603-4". Belleten (in Turkish). 79 (286): 901–930. doi:10.37879/belleten.2015.901. ISSN 0041-4255.