Broussa

Broussa, Brussa, or Brusa, a city of Asiatic Turkey, in the province of Anatolia, is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus and about a dozen miles S. of the Sea of Marmora. It has about 200 mosques - some accounts place the number at 600 - and a 13th century citadel of Greek construction. Its industries embrace silk, wine, carpets, gauze, etc. Fruit also is largely exported. In the neighbourhood are the celebrated baths of Broussa, which, fed by mineral springs, reach a temperature sometimes of 180°. Meerschaum is also found. Broussa was anciently Prusa, the capital of Bithynia, and the residence of the Turkish sultans from 1329 until 1365, when the seat of empire was removed to Adrianople.