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The Evliya Çelebi Way is a sustainable, cultural route for horse-riders, hikers and bikers that has been established in northwest Turkey in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth, in 1611, of the great Ottoman adventurer of that name. Evliya Çelebi travelled the Ottoman Empire and beyond for some 40 years, and left a 10 volume account of his wanderings.
The Evliya Çelebi Way follows the early stages of the route Evliya took in 1671 when he set out on his pilgrimage to the Muslim Holy Places in the Hejaz. The Way begins at Hersek, on the south coast of Izmit Gulf, and follows his tracks via Iznik, Yenişehir, Inegöl, Tavşanlı, Kütahya (his ancestral home), Afyonkarahisar, Uşak, and Gediz, to end at Simav. Heavily-urbanised sections of his route, such as through Istanbul and Bursa, are easily visited by public transport. The Way is some 600km long.
The Evliya Çelebi Way was first defined in 2009, by a Turkish-British equestrian expedition. The guidebook to the route is available in English and Turkish, and the route has been widely covered in the media
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