Eynegöl

Eynegöl lies in a fertile basin east of Bursa, between wooded mountains and the roads of northwestern Anatolia. Its Byzantine fortress was among the places taken during the early expansion of Osman and his followers. Under Ottoman rule the settlement grew around markets and religious foundations, serving the villages and cultivated land of the basin.

In the fifteenth century the statesman İshak Pasha endowed a complex in the town for worship and charity. The complex gave the growing settlement a lasting centre for communal life. Its endowment deed of 1486 describes provision for the poor and shelter for travellers and residents. The buildings reflect the part played by Ottoman patrons in shaping the town after its frontier fortress had become part of a larger state.