Balıkesir

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Balıkesir, q.v.

Balıkesir

1. Alternative form of Balikesir.

From Ottoman Turkish بالیكسر, perhaps from Byzantine Greek Παλαιόκαστρον (Palaiókastron), from παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) + κάστρον (kástron, “castle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.ɫɯ.ce.siɾ/

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• Hyphenation: Ba‧lı‧ke‧sir

Balıkesir

1. Balıkesir (a city and administrative center of Balıkesir, Turkey)
2. Balıkesir (a province of Turkey)

• Balıkesirli

• (provinces of Turkey) Adana, Adıyaman, Afyonkarahisar, Ağrı, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Ardahan, Artvin, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bartın, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingöl, Bitlis, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Çanakkale, Çankırı, Çorum, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Düzce, Edirne, Elâzığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Hakkâri, Hatay, Iğdır, Isparta, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Karabük, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kırıkkale, Kırklareli, Kırşehir, Kilis, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Muş, Nevşehir, Niğde, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Siirt, Sinop, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Tekirdağ, Tokat, Trabzon, Tunceli, Uşak, Van, Yalova, Yozgat, Zonguldak ^{(Category: tr:Provinces of Turkey)}