Yıldırım is a municipality and district of Bursa Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its area is 110 km2, and its population is 655,856 (2022). It covers part of the city centre of Bursa. Founded in 1987, it was named after Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, whose nickname was Yıldırım ("thunderbolt" in Turkish).
It is at the foot of Mt. Uludağ, at 150–155 metres in elevation. Kestel and Gürsu are to its west, and the flat lands of Demirtaş, a subdistrict of Osmangazi, are to its north. The Bursa-Ankara highway passes through it. With Osmangazi and Nilüfer, Yıldırım covers the Bursa agglomeration.
The Bursa Uludağ Aerial Lift (, pictured to the right) is an aerial lift serving Mt. Uludağ. Built by the Swiss company Von Roll Holding and opened on 29 October 1963, the aerial tramway was replaced in 2013 by a modern and much bigger capacity gondola lift system by Leitner Group of Italy.
Yıldırım is one of Turkey's important textile production centers. With a population of 629,702 at the 2000 census, it is also one of Turkey's most populated areas; 30% of Bursa's population lives in the Yıldırım district.
Historical places Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque) Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb) Bayezid I Mosque and (külliye) complex (Yıldırım Camii ve külliyesi) Emir Sultan Mosque Cumalıkızık village, with well-preserved historical Ottoman architecture
Composition There are 71 neighbourhoods in Yıldırım District:Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
152 Evler Akçağlayan Anadolu Arabayatağı Bağlaraltı Balaban Baruthane Beyazıt Çelebi Mehmet Çınarönü Cumalıkızık Davutdede Davutkadı Değirmenlikızık Değirmenönü Demetevler Duaçınarı Eğitim Emirsultan Erikli Ertuğrulgazi Esenevler Fidyekızık Güllük Hacıseyfettin Hacıvat Hamamlıkızık Hocataşkın İsabey Kaplıkaya Karaağaç Karamazak Karapınar Kazımkarabekir Kurtoğlu Maltepe Mehmet Akif Ersoy Mevlana Meydancık Millet Mimarsinan Mollaarap Musababa Namazgah Ortabağlar Piremir Sakarya Samanlı Selçukbey Selimzade Sinandede Sıracevizler Şirinevler Siteler Şükraniye Teferrüç Ulus Umurbey Vakıf Vatan Yavuzselim Yediselviler Yenimahalle Yeşil Yeşilyayla Yetmişbeşinciyıl Yiğitler Yıldırım Yunusemre Zeyniler Zümrütevler
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