Küre is a town in Söğüt

Sögüt

Söğüt is a town and district of Bilecik Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. Söğüt has an area of and borders Bilecik to the west, Gölpazarı to the north, İnhisar to the northeast, Eskişehir to the southeast, and Bozüyük to the southwest. The 2000 census put the population at 21,012 citizens,...

 district of Bilecik Province, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. Situated at 40°05′N 30°09′E it is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Söğüt and 24 kilometres (14.9 mi) east of Bilecik

Bilecik

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. The population of Küre is 1293 as of 2010. The town was founded in the 13th century. Later Turkmen tribe of Kayı (founders of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

) also settled in the village. The second sultan (then known as bey) Orhan

Orhan I

Orhan I or Orhan Bey was the second bey of the nascent Ottoman Empire from 1326 to 1359...

 commissioned a mosque in the town. Another building referring to the history of the town is a türbe ("tomb") which is tought to be of Dursun Fakih, brother in law of Osman I

Osman I

Osman I or Othman I or El-Gazi Sultan Osman Ghazi, or Osman Bey or I. Osman, Osman Gazi Han), nicknamed "Kara" for his courage, was the leader of the Ottoman Turks, and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire...

.