Byzantine emperors built a castle on a high and steep hill dominating the city and fortified them with bastions.
Kütahya Castle is a pentagonal, solid and ornamented structure on a blue and reddish rock. It is a castle that stands like a ring on a hill. The castle is about three thousand meters. The four sides are surrounded by rugged rock; The castle is located in the north-east of the work of the Germiyan Castle-i Bâlâ Mosque, and there is a fountain.
Kütahya Fortress was given to the military custody of the Ottoman government in the time of the Ottoman government and the administration of the fortress called Knigth of castle. The fortress was also allocated for the resettlement of the artillery, the lagman and the soldiers. There were 119 timers in the castle. Some of these soldiers, who were present for the castle guard, used to go on the expedition when there was a great need for the soldiers because of the prolongation of the wars, and the rest of the soldiers continued to the castle. The fortitude of the castle was usually given to the people who had served in the palace and deserved their retirement. Kale dizdarı had some land with the name of a cooker other than the pre-frit. This land passed to their sons and grandchildren. Knigth of castle was appointed by the sultan's decree. Knigth of castle would also receive a journal of other goods from Kütahya jizye other than the ones in January. Altintas sub-district of Karaagac and other villages of the 7,600-liter graft belonged to Kütahya fortress regency. In the castle there was a castle kethüdara, artillery head, head of the student, dungeon, and the doorman.
IV. During the long war which started in the time of Mehmed and lasted for 16 years, the soldiers who served in the castle guard have been sent to the front due to the depletion of military resources. T0hen, this practice was abandoned and a certain wage purchase was applied. At the beginning of the year 1698, each soldier was ordered to send a levend instead of a levend or to pay thirty cents for the levend fee, then this amount was reduced to ten cent. The fortress of Nizam-ı Cedid was attached to ,the Üsküdar Ocağı (Selimiye).
Since he was also in prison at the castle, criminals from Kütahya and its environs or from other places were imprisoned here. A ball was thrown from the fortress to the point of drowning the insurgents. The son and brother of Nasredzâde Nasuh, the governor of Gediz Voivode Nasuhzade Nasuh, who occupied the state very much, was imprisoned in Kütahya Fortress by order of the Governor of Anatolia Alaaddin Pasha.
The castle was inspected at least once a year by the Anatolian governor. The governor registered how many guards, prisoners, cannons, ammunition, and so on, if necessary, if he held them accountable. There were two arsenals of Kütahya Castle and two tops. In 1817, there were seventeen cannon, including howitzer and mortar. Two battles in the southeast and the northeast of the fortress are used during Ramadan.
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