Southern Marmara Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Southern Marmara
Southern Marmara is simply a geographical term, as is the larger Marmara region that it's part of. Turkish local government is in 81 provinces, with no intermediate level between them and national government, and those making up this area (more or less) are Çanakkale, Balıkesir and Bursa Provinces, with a little corner of Yalova. These have little relevance to travellers, so this page describes the large peninsula lying south of the Sea of Marmara, which also has a coastline on the Aegean. It's bordered by the similarly geographical, non-administrative regions ofEastern Marmarato the northeast and east,Central Anatoliasoutheast,Northern Aegeansouth, andEastern Thracenorth and west in Europe across the sea and the Dardanelles Strait. The long coastline meant that sea-going Hellenistic peopl
Southern Marmara Travel Guide Sections
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