[FIRST OTTOMAN GUIDE TO PALAEOKASTRON] Balikesir rehberi.

YÜZBASI HARPUTLU SARACZÂDE ISHAK HAKKI. Balikesir Liva Matbaasi., Ist., [AR 1339 = AH 1341] = 1920. Original bdg. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 74 p., one folded page. Özege 1623. First and Only Edition. Ex-library stamps of Balikesir Halkevi [i.e. Balikesir Public House]. Yüzbasi [i.e. Captain] Harputlu Saraczâde Ishak Hakki Bey was an officer who participated in the War of Independence (1919-1922) on the Balikesir front. He prepared a guide that explained the city in detail during the period he was in and around Balikesir in the 1920s. Balikesir is a city in Turkey and is the capital city of Balıkesir Province. It was the capital of Karasi between 1341-1922. Close to modern Balıkesir was the Roman town of Hadrianutherae, founded, as its name commemorates, by the emperor Hadrian. Hadrian came to the region in A.D. 124, as a result of a successful bear hunting he had established a city called his name here. It is estimated that the city consisted of the castle, the homeste