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Söğüt Ertuğrul Gazi Museum

Museum Containing well chosen old ottoman ethnographic (relating to the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences) exhibits are enough to give you an idea of life in the region in the last couple of centuries

Söğüt, Turkey

Coordinates: 40.015278, 30.181667

Söğüt Ertuğrul Gazi Museum is a museum in Söğüt (district) of Bilecik Province, Turkey.

Söğüt is notable as being the town from which the Ottoman Empire originated. Ertuğrul, the father of the Osman I (the founder of the empire), has a tomb in Söğüt.

Originally the three-storey wooden building was an Ottoman dispensary built in the early 1900s. In 2001, after restoration, the building was opened as a museum.[3]

The museum has many items from the Bilecik area Yörüks: old clothes, carpets, weighing instruments, flags, weapons and coin purses. There are also archaeological items such as earthenware kitchen tools from the Roman Empire and coins from the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman eras

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