Biga

Biga lies on the river plain of the northwestern Anatolian peninsula that bears its name. Its name is commonly linked to the Greek word for a spring, a reminder of the waters that cross the district before reaching the Sea of Marmara. The area passed through Byzantine and Latin hands in the early thirteenth century. Ottoman historians later associated the capture of Biga with the early Ottoman advance around the Dardanelles and Gallipoli.