Uluabat

Uluabat, in the Byzantine period Lopadion (), Latinized as Lopadium, is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Karacabey, Bursa Province, Turkey. Its population is 478 (2022). It is the site on the ancient town Miletouteichos.

==History== Uluabat is located on the banks of the Mustafakemalpaşa River (ancient and medieval Rhyndacus). It is first mentioned by Theodore of Stoudios in one of his letters, as the site of a xenodocheion (caravanserai). By the late 11th century, it featured a market town. The existence of a 4th-century bridge carrying the road between Cyzicus on the Sea of Marmara to the interior of Asia Minor made it a place of some strategic importance, especially in the wars of the Komnenian emperors against the Seljuk Turks in the 11th–12th centuries, during which it is best known. The Seljuks raided Lopadion and its surrounding areas during the reign of Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) and a large Seljuk army from Iran, numbering around 40,000 - 50,000 men, sacked the town and pillaged the region in 1113. Alexios fought the Turks in the vicinity, and in 1130, his successor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) built there a great fortress which became the base of his campaigns against the Turkish Sultanate of Rum. During the same period, Lopadion is attested as an archbishopric. In 1147, the French and German contingents participating in the Second Crusade united at Lopadion.