Silk Production in the Ertu？rul Sanjak in the Early 20th Century

Ertu？rul Sanjak, founded in 1885, consisted of S？？üt, ？neg？l and Yeni？ehir qazas, with the center being Bilejik. In Bilejik having a wide range of mulberry fields many silk workshops have been opened. Most of the manufacturing plants belonged to non-Muslims, especially to Armenians. Workers who was working at these factories in Bursa and Bilecik had a strike action in 1910. The World war I process led to the shutdown of a number of factories. This article focuses on the silk industry around Bilecik in the late Ottoman period