History and Culture of Balikesir
Balıkesir is a province where history is written in the landscape: a Persian satrapy on a lake shore, Byzantine villages on the mountain, Ottoman market towns on the plains, and the footprints of the War of…
A First-Timer’s Guide to Balikesir
Balıkesir is the great overlooked province of northwestern Turkey, a place where the Marmara and Aegean regions meet and where most visitors pass through on the way somewhere else.
