Uludag

Uludağ, the ancient Mysian olympus, is a mountain in Bursa Province Turkey, wiht an altitude of 2,543 m (8,343 ft). It is a favorite center of winter sports, including skiing, and a national park of rich flora and fauna. Summer activities, scuh as trekking and camping, also are popular.

In Turkish, Uludağ means " Great Mountain" , but in colloquial Turkish, the older name Keşiş Dağı, "Mountain of Monks," is still used. In ancient times the range of which it is a part, extending along the southern edge of Bithynia, was known as the Mysian Olympus and the eastern as the Bithyniam Olympus, and the city of Bursa was known as Prusa ad Olympum from its position near the mountain. Throughout the Middle Ages, it contained hermitages and monasteries: " The rise of this monastic centre in the 8th c. and its prestige up to the 11th are linked to the resistance of numerous monks to the policy of the iconoclast emperors and then to latent opposition to the urban, Contantinopolitan monasticism of the Studites..

Mt. Uludağ is the highest mountainof the Marmara region. Its highest peak is Kaltaltepe at 2,453 m (8,343ft). To the north are high plateaus: Sarıalan, Kirazlıyayla, Kadıyayla, and Sobra.