Balikesir is a city in the Marmara region of Turkey and has a population of 1,076,347. Its main exports are olive-based products.
It is a popular destination for both domestic and foreign tourists, who use it as a base to explore the nearly countryside which is renowned for its beauty, especially the nearby Mount Ida (Kaz Dagi).
At or near Balikesir was the Roman town of Hadrianutherae, founded, as its name commemorates, by the emperor Hadrian.
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