XX. Yüzyıl Başlarında Ertuğrul Sancağında İpek Üretimi
Silk Production in the Ertuğrul Sanjak in the Early 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: Ertuğrul Sanjak, founded in 1885, consisted of Söğüt, İnegöl and Yenişehir qazas, with the center being Bilejik. In Bilejik having a wide range of mulberry fields many silk workshops have been opened. Most of the manufacturing plants belonged to non-Muslims, especially to Armenians. Workers who was working at these factories in Bursa and Bilecik had a strike action in 1910. The World war I process led to the shutdown of a number of factories. This article focuses on the silk industry around Bilecik in the late Ottoman period.

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