Balıkesir Turkish pronunciation: is a city in Turkey & is a capital city of Balıkesir Province. Balıkesir is located in the Marmara region of Turkey in addition to has a population of 338,936. Between 1341–1922, it was the capital of Karasi.
Close to contemporary Balıkesir was the Roman town of Hadrianutherae, founded, as its hit commemorates, by the emperor Hadrian. Hadrian came to the region in A.D. 124, as a statement of a successful bear hunting he had determining a city called his pull in here. this is the estimated that the city consisted of the castle, the homestead, the stud and a few homes. it is thought that the small town was where the current stadium is present.
Members of the Roman and Pre-Byzantine dynasty had used this castle as a vacation area and for hunting. During the Byzantine period, the small town which had become increasingly neglected was required as Palaeokastron Greek: Παλαιόκαστρο meaning Old Castle.
Also, when the Karasi Beg in the 13th century as using the remains of the small town. 1297 is considered as the date of established of the city which was one of the few to be founded by the Turks in Anatolia. The Karasids was a Turkic principality in Mysia. Since the 13th century, Balıkesir city draw been the administrative centre of the Mysia region.
In 1345, Balıkesir city was annexed by the Ottomans. In 1898 an earthquake destroyed much of the city. The number of buildings that were not destroyed in the 1898 earthquake was only 51. In 1914, Turkish students marched through the streets of the city singing a song of hatred against the Greeks. In April 1916, the Christian refugees of the villages in the vicinity of Balikesser underwent persecution from the Turks. They were refused bread on payment. The women were told that they should become Muslim so as non to die of hunger.
At the beginning of June, numerous young Greeks were forced by the authorities to convert to Islam at Government headquarters. On 30 June 1920 Balıkesir city was conquered by the invading Greeks but on 6 September 1922, the Turkish army took back the city. During the Turkish War of Independence, Balıkesir was the leading centre of the militias in Western Anatolia against Greeks.
On 3 August 1950, a major fire destroyed the centre of the city which was rebuilt later. That fire destroyed an important component of the city. According to estimates, it was the written of the firing of firecrackers belonging to child guns in a shop. According to another opinion, it was caused by the gnawing of the firecrackers of child guns by rats and this fire spread to the electrical contact. 498 shops completely burned. It is thebiggest disaster to befall in Balıkesir after the 1898 earthquake. near a thousand people were unemployed. The tents were classification up by the Turkish Red Crescent and food aid was presents for a long time.