History
History
The province of Bilecik displays a characteristic of transition climate between the severe and low precipitant terrestrial climate of the Central Anatolia Region and warm and precipitant climate of the Marmara and Black Sea Region. The known history of the Bitinia Region starts with the nation of Thyns originated from the nations of Thrace whom inhabited the region in BC 1950’s. The region was then entered under the dominance of Egypt, Hittite, Frig, Kimmer, Lydia, Persian, Macedonian civilizations and Bitinya Kingdom, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire. After the settlement of a tribe leaded by Ertuğrul Bey from the Kayı Clan of the Turkish nation to the environ of Söğüt and vicinity, the first steps of the foundation of the Ottoman Empire was taken.