page_title: Manisa
section_title: Saruhan-Ottoman period
hierarchical_section_title: Manisa / Notable natives / Saruhan-Ottoman period
caption_attribution_description: Bust of the en: Ayşe Hafsa Sultan in en:Manisa, Turkey, en: Selim I's wife and en: Süleyman the Magnificent's mother.
context_page_description: Manisa, historically known as Magnesia, Greek: Μαγνγησια, is a large city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province.
  Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port city and the regional metropolitan center of İzmir and by its fertile hinterland rich in quantity and variety of agricultural production. In fact, İzmir's proximity also adds a particular dimension to all aspects of life's pace in Manisa in the form of a dense traffic of daily commuters between the two cities, separated as they are by a half-hour drive served by a fine six-lane highway nevertheless requiring attention at all times due to its curves and the rapid ascent across Mount Sipylus's mythic scenery.
  The historic part of Manisa spreads out from a forested valley in the immediate slopes of Sipylus mountainside, along Çaybaşı Stream which flows next to Niobe's "Weeping Rock", an ancient bridge called the "Red Bridge" as well as to several tombs-shrines in the Turkish style dating back to the Saruhan period.
context_section_description: Saruhan dynasty - Turkish Beylik dynasty which ruled Manisa region in the 14th century
  Lala Mehmed Pasha - Ottoman grand vizier of the 16th century
  Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi - Ottoman mathematician and academic
  Karaosmanoğlu family - Dynasty of regional lords (ayan) who governed with great autonomy between mid-18th and mid-19th century from their bases in Akhisar, Manisa and İzmir and also produced notable members later such as the author Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
  Gregory (Orologas), Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Ayvalik, executed by the Turkish Army in 1922
caption: Bust in Manisa park of the Ottoman imperial consort and mother Ayşe Hafsa Sultan, builder and the initiator of the city's Mesir Festival in Manisa.
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