Nilüfer River

The Nilufer or Niloufer River (Turkish: Nilüfer Çayı) is a river in Bursa Province, Turkey. From its source near Mount Uludağ (the classical Mysian Olympus) and flowing past the city of Bursa, the river tends to the northwest along its course of 203 kilometres (126 mi).

Nilüfer River
Hüdavendigar Park, along the shores of the Nilüfer River in Bursa
Map of the Simav River basin of which the Nilüfer is a tributary
Physical characteristics
Source	Uludağ
Mouth	Simav River
Length	203 km (126 mi)
Basin features
Cities	Bursa

In Turkish, nilüfer means "water lily." The river may have been named for the flowers or for Nilüfer Hatun, a wife of the Ottoman sultan Orhan. The district of Nilüfer in Bursa Province is named after the river.

Today, the Doğancı-1 Dam crosses it.

Writing in the 19th century, John Cramer considered the Nilufer to be the classical Odrysses though noted there were some problems with this.^[1][2] (Latin: Horisius). C. Foss, in compiling Map 52 for the Barrington Atlas, silently rejects this identification, preferring the modern Kara Dere (Karacay; a left tributary of the Simav_River).^[3] Its plain was known as Mygdonia^[4] and formed the Persian satrapy of Dascylium.^[5] It formerly flowed into the Rhyndacus but now joins the Simav (ancient Macestos) north of Karacabey.