Bursa (formerly known as Brusa or Prusa) is a city in northwestern Turkey. With a population of approx. 620 000 it is Turkey's fifth city. The ancient Greece city of Prusa in the 1st century BC was founded by the Bithynian king Prusias[?]. Later it was a major city located on the westernmost extension of the famous Silk Road and the capital of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th and early 15th centuries. The city is now famous for its ski resorts (on the mountain of Uludağ), the mausoleums of Ottoman sultans, and the surrounding fertile plain. The city is also famed as the home of some important Turkish foods, especially chestnut desserts and a meat dish called iskender kebap.
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accuracy of this observation. Again, I can show that the carcasses of
devoured; and seeds of many kinds in the crops of floatingbirds long
a few days' immersion in sea-water; but some taken out of the crop of a
surprise nearly all germinated.
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birds of many kinds are blown by gales to vast distances across the ocean.
flight would often be 35 miles an hour; and some authors have given a far
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are known to look out for tired birds, and the contents of their torn crops
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