Bilecik

• Bilecik Province is one of the provinces of Turkey, and its capital is Bilecik, which was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire.

• Bilecik province is located in western Turkey, with an area of 4,181 km2, and a population of 194,326 people, and the average population density is 46 / km2.

• The Ottoman Empire was established in 1299 AD, and the city of Bilecik was its capital.

• Bilecik province includes the city of Söğüt, written in the Ottoman language "Skud", meaning "willow tree" in Turkish, and it is located in the Marmara region in Turkey.

• The area of Sogut is 599 km2 and is bordered from the west by Bilecik, to the north by Gulpazari, to the northeast by Inhisar, and to the southeast by Eskişehir.

• Sogut is 31 km from Bilecik and 52 km from Eskişehir.

• Its economy depends on Eskişehir, and in Sogut there are 5 neighborhoods and 23 villages.

• The population in 2000 AD was 21012 people, but according to the 2010 census the population estimates were 19,425 people.

• Sogut was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1299 AD to 1335 AD, until the capital was transferred to Bursa in 1326 AD.

• History of Sogut: It was a Seljuk tribe in western Anatolia and at a later time it was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire, it was a small tribe descended from the Kayi tribe that invaded Anatolia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

• The village of Sogut was adjacent to the Byzantine Empire in the West. Legend says that "Ertugrul", the master of the Kayi tribe, courageously kept his enemies from the Byzantines in the Gulf, as his son "Othman" defeated all of them during his rule from 1299 AD to 1326 AD, and when Othman died, his son Orhan named the tribe Othmaniyya in appreciation of his father, then the village of Sogut later grew until it became the capital of the Othman tribe, then the capital was transferred to the city of Bursa in 1326 AD.