Bursa, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Kuban, Doğan
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Leiden
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Brill
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Bursa , in northwest Anatolia (Illustration 1), was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire, from 726-66/1326-65. The period from the eighth/fourteenth to the ninth/fifteenth century, the most important in the city's history, was also the most important in terms of its art and architecture . During that time a number of successive sultans built architectural complexes (often called külliyye or ʿimāret ) in undeveloped parts of the city, which then became the nuclei of new quarters, a process that made Bursa the model for early Ottoman