Nilüfer River

The Nilufer or Niloufer River (Turkish: Nilüfer Çayı) is a river in Turkey. From its source near the Uludağ (the classical Mysian Olympus) and flowing past Bursa, the river tends to the northwest along its course of 203 km.

The Nilufer was the classical Odrysses^[1][2] (Latin: Horisius). Its plain was known as Mygdonia^[3] and formed the Persian satrapy of Dascylium.^[4] It formerly flowed into the Rhyndacus but now joins the Simav (ancient Macestos) north of Karacabey.

In Turkish, nilüfer means "water lily." The river may have been renamed for the flowers or for Nilüfer Hatun, a wife of the Ottoman sultan Orhan I.

Today, the Doğancı-1 Dam crosses it.

References

1. ^ Cramer, John A. A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, with a Map, Vol. 1, p. 172. Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1832. Accessed 4 Sept 2011.
2. ^ Hazlitt, Wm. The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane. "Odrysses." Whittaker & Co. (London), 1851. Accessed 4 Sept 2011.
3. ^ Strabo. Geography, XII. 3. 27.
4. ^ Hazlitt, Wm. The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane. "Dascylium." Whittaker & Co. (London), 1851. Accessed 4 Sept 2011.