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28-586: Gediz may refer to: Gediz, Kütahya , a town in the Kütahya Province of Turkey Gediz District , a district of the Kütahya Province of Turkey Gediz River , a river in the Aegean region of Turkey [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

56-583: A külliye complex in Kütahya by the last Germiyan bey, Yakub II . The inscription includes a reference to Yakub acquiring the village of Ilıcasu , subordinate to Gediz, for endowing the külliye. The inscription then mentions that the reigning Ottoman sultan, Mehmed I , signed off on these transactions, which, according to Mustafa Çetin Varlık, indicates that the places mentioned were under Ottoman administration by then. This inscription mentions Gediz as Gedüs , which

84-580: A famous Muslim Sufi and charismatic theologian. He was an eminent Ulema , born of a Greek mother and a Muslim father in Simavna (Kyprinos) southwest of Edirne (formerly Adrianople ). Mehmed's brother Musa had made Bedreddin his " qadi of the army," or the supreme judge. Bedreddin created a populist religious movement in the Ottoman Sultanate, "subversive conclusions promoting the suppression of social differences between rich and poor as well as

112-474: Is 764 m (2,507 ft). The area was described, in 1920, as having expansive oak forests. Gediz has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen : Csa ), with hot, dry summers, and chilly winters with some snow. Until 1970, Gediz was located at present-day Eskigediz , 7 km to the north on the upper reaches of the Gediz Çayı stream. After the old town was destroyed in the 1970 Gediz earthquake ,

140-521: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mehmed I Mehmed I ( c.  1386/7 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi ( Ottoman Turkish : چلبی محمد , "the noble-born") or Kirişçi ( Greek : Κυριτζής , romanized :  Kyritzis , "lord's son"), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Son of Sultan Bayezid I and his concubine Devlet Hatun , he fought with his brothers over control of

168-720: Is an older Turkish spelling of the name. Two mosques in present-day Eskigediz were built under Ottoman auspices in the 1500s. The first was the Kurşunlu Cami, built in 1540 by one Mustafa bin Hamza. It was the first domed mosque in Gediz. The second was the Ulu Cami, built in 1589/90 (998 AH ) on a commission from Gazanfer Ağa, who was Kapı Ağa under the Ottoman sultan Murad III . Several other foundations in Gediz by Gazanfer Ağa, who

196-516: Is called the Green Mosque . Mehmed I also completed another mosque in Bursa, which his grandfather Murad I had commenced but which had been neglected during the reign of Bayezid . He was also known for his janissary reforms and architectural skills reflected in the tomb of his parents . Mehmed founded in the vicinity of his own Green Mosque and mausoleum two other characteristic institutions, one

224-683: Is widely known as the "second founder" of the Ottoman Sultanate. Soon after Mehmed began his reign, his brother Mustafa Çelebi , who had originally been captured along with their father Bayezid I during the Battle of Ankara and held captive in Samarkand , hiding in Anatolia during the Interregnum, reemerged and asked Mehmed to partition the empire with him. Mehmed refused and met Mustafa's forces in battle, easily defeating them. Mustafa escaped to

252-495: The Battle of Çamurlu . Before his death, to secure passing the throne safely to his son Murad II, Mehmed blinded his nephew Orhan Çelebi (son of Süleyman), and decided to send his two sons Yusuf and Mahmud to be held as a hostage by Emperor Manuel II , hoping to ensure the continuing custody of his brother Mustafa. He was buried in Bursa, in a mausoleum erected by himself near the celebrated mosque which he built there, and which, because of its decorations of green glazed tiles,

280-617: The 12th century. Gediz was administered as a sanjak under the Seljuk dynasty as well as the succeeding Germiyan beylik. The oldest mosque in what is now Eskigediz, the Umurbey mosque (also called the Serdar mosque), dates from the Seljuk period. Gediz appears to have come under Ottoman control by 1414. The source for this is a stone inscription from 1414, commemorating the endowment of

308-530: The 1600s and left an account of the town (which he also wrote as Gedüs ) in his Seyahatnâme . He attributed the town's name to a king of Rum named Gedüs. He wrote that the town was a zeamet with 13 neighborhoods and about 2,000 houses, which were covered with earthen roofs. It had 20 mosques; he specifically referred to the Hacı Mustafa mosque, which he called the old mosque, and the Gazanfer Ağa mosque in

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336-516: The Byzantine city of Thessaloniki , but after an agreement with Mehmed, the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos exiled Mustafa to the island of Lemnos . However, Mehmed still faced some problems, first being the problem of his nephew Orhan, who Mehmed perceived as a threat to his rule, much like his late brothers had been. There was allegedly a plot involving him by Manuel II Palaiologos , who tried to use Orhan against Sultan Mehmed; however,

364-811: The European part of the empire (the area dividing the Anatolian and European sides of the empire, Constantinople and the surrounding region, was still held by the Byzantine Empire ), becoming Mehmed I. He consolidated his power, made Edirne the most important of the dual capitals, and conquered parts of Albania , the Jandarid emirate, and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from the Mamluks . Taking his many achievements into consideration, Mehmed

392-608: The Ottoman realm in the Ottoman Interregnum (1402–1413). Starting from the province of Rûm he managed to bring first Anatolia and then the European territories ( Rumelia ) under his control, reuniting the Ottoman state by 1413, and ruling it until his death in 1421. Called "The Restorer," he reestablished central authority in Anatolia, and he expanded the Ottoman presence in Europe by the conquest of Wallachia in 1415. Venice destroyed his fleet off Gallipoli in 1416 as

420-559: The Ottomans lost a naval war. Mehmed was born in 1386 or 1387 as the fourth son of Sultan Bayezid I ( r.  1389–1402 ) and one of his consorts, the slave girl Devlet Hatun . Following Ottoman custom, when he reached adolescence in 1399, he was sent to gain experience as provincial governor over the Rûm Eyalet (central northern Anatolia ), recently conquered from its Eretnid rulers. On 20 July 1402, his father Bayezid

448-466: The barriers between different forms of monotheism." Successfully developing a popular social revolution and syncretism of the various religions and sects of the empire, Bedreddin's movement began in the European side of the empire and underwent further expansion in western Anatolia. In 1416, Sheikh Bedreddin started his rebellion against the throne. After a four-year struggle, he was finally captured by Mehmed's grand vizier Bayezid Pasha and hanged in

476-514: The border of Phrygia , Mysia , and Lydia . (The sources for this period are Strabo , Stephanus of Byzantium , and Ptolemy .) The 6th-century Synekdemos of Hierokles later mentions Kadoi as part of Phrygia Pakatiane . Kadoi was also a Christian diocese attested consistently from the 7th through 12th centuries in the Notitiae. Until around the 9th century, it was listed as subordinate to Laodikeia , and after that as under Hierapolis until

504-472: The city of Serres , a city in modern-day Greece , in 1420. The reign of Mehmed I as sultan of the re-united empire lasted only eight years before his death, but he had also been the most powerful brother contending for the throne and de facto ruler of most of the empire for nearly the whole preceding period of 11 years of the Ottoman Interregnum that passed between his father's captivity at Ankara and his own final victory over his brother Musa Çelebi at

532-427: The eldest, Ertuğrul, had died in 1400, while the next in line, Mustafa, was a prisoner of Timur. Leaving aside the underage siblings, this left four princes—Mehmed, Süleyman , İsa , and Musa , to contend over control of the remaining Ottoman territories in the civil war known as the " Ottoman Interregnum ". In modern historiography, these princes are usually called by the title Çelebi , but in contemporary sources,

560-412: The end of the Ottoman period, Ali Cevad  [ tr ] wrote that Gediz's importance had partly come from its trade connection with İzmir . He also noted that the town's houses were covered with black clay soil, which he said gave the town a "depressing" appearance. From 1867 until 1922, Gediz was part of Hüdavendigâr vilayet . This article about an Aegean Region of Turkey location

588-400: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gediz&oldid=1156765769 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gediz, K%C3%BCtahya The elevation of Gediz

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616-399: The sultan found out about the plot and had Orhan blinded for betrayal, according to a common Byzantine practice. Furthermore, as a result of the Battle of Ankara and other civil wars, the population of the empire had become unstable and traumatized. A very powerful social and religious movement arose in the empire and became disruptive. The movement was led by Sheikh Bedreddin (1359–1420),

644-537: The title is reserved for Mehmed and Musa. The Byzantine sources translated the title as Kyritzes (Κυριτζής), which was in turn adopted into Turkish as kirişçi , sometimes misinterpreted as güreşçi , "the wrestler". During the early interregnum, Mehmed Çelebi behaved as Timur's vassal. Beside the other princes, Mehmed minted coin which Timur's name appeared as "Demur han Gürgân" (تيمور خان كركان), alongside his own as "Mehmed bin Bayezid han" (محمد بن بايزيد خان). This

672-477: The town bazar. The castle, which he wrote was locally called "Canbaz Kale", had recently been destroyed – he mentioned that in 1676, during the Celali revolts , one Kuyucu Murad Paşa had ordered its destruction to prevent the rebels from being able to use it. Evliya also wrote that supposedly, once every 30 years, "a famous group of acrobats" would come to Gediz and climb to the top of the castle rock with ropes. At

700-480: The town was rebuilt at its present location on the plain. The site of the present town was previously known as Karılar Pazarı . Gediz's origins are in the ancient and medieval settlement of Kadoi ( Ancient Greek : Κάδοι ), which was located at present-day Eskigediz. Kadoi's earliest known mention was by Polybios in the 2nd century BCE. In Roman times, the town was located in Phrygia Epiktetos , near

728-593: Was a native of the town, are known, including a hamam , a han , and a madrasa . The Ulu Cami was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1970 and rebuilt in 1990. Also in the 1500s, the Tapu Defter #438, from the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent , listed Gediz as a nahiye in the Sanjak of Kütahya . It was later reclassified as a kaza in the late 1800s. Evliya Çelebi visited Gediz in

756-590: Was defeated in the Battle of Ankara by the Turko-Mongol conqueror and ruler Timur . The brothers (with the exception of Mustafa , who was captured and taken along with Bayezid to Samarkand ) were rescued from the battlefield, Mehmed being saved by Bayezid Pasha , who took him to his hometown of Amasya . Mehmed later made Bayezid Pasha his grand vizier (1413–1421). The early Ottoman Empire had no regulated succession , and according to Turkish tradition, every son could succeed his father. Of Mehmed's brothers,

784-575: Was probably an attempt on Mehmed's part to justify to Timur his conquest of Bursa after the Battle of Ulubad . After Mehmed established himself in Rum , Timur had already begun preparations for his return to Central Asia, and took no further steps to interfere with the status quo in Anatolia. After winning the Interregnum , Mehmed crowned himself sultan in the Thracian city of Edirne that lay in

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