Susurluk

Susurluk lies in the lowlands between Balıkesir and the Sea of Marmara, in a district of rivers and wet ground. Local accounts describe the place as a wooded and marshy estate belonging to the endowment of İne Bey of the Karası dynasty. His descendants managed it as a farm called Susığırlık, a name associated with water and cattle. In the seventeenth century settlers from the Karaman region came here, while caravans travelling toward Bursa and Istanbul used the area as a stopping place.