Hayrabolu

Hayrabolu lies inland in Thrace, between the roads to Adrianople and the Sea of Marmara. Known in Byzantine times as Chariopolis, it was the seat of a bishop and a place where John Kantakouzenos resided during the civil wars of the fourteenth century. Ottoman forces took the town later in that century. It subsequently served as winter quarters for armies on campaign, and in 1499 Güzelce Hasan Bey endowed a stone mosque here with revenues from villages near Dimetoka.