"Rape, pillage, conquest - and that 's just the masseur
By Adrian Mourby
Published: March 12 2005 02:00 | Last updated: March 12 2005 02:00
There have been thermal baths in Bursa since Roman times, when Justinian's legionnaires built the first bath-houses over the wells that bubble up from under Mount Uludag. Parched and tired from marching across Turkey, they created a Byzantine holiday resort out of the 3,000 springs on the slopes of what locals claim to be Mount Olympus."
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