Hayriye, İnegöl

Hayriye is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of İnegöl, Bursa Province, in the Marmara region of Turkey.

Hayriye was founded in 1877-78 by Georgian families of Muslim faith who migrated to Turkey from the border area between Georgia and Turkey (near Artvin) (situated in the province of Adjara in today's Republic of Georgia).

250 people had left their native land, fleeing from the war between the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

Haci Mehmet Efendi from the neighboring village of Maden led them to the place called Hayriye where they finally were given by the Turkish authorities the right to settle after clashes with Chechen refugees, who themselves had fled from persecution in the Russian Empire.

Since the 1960s, many inhabitants of Hayriye went as migrant workers to Germany (most live in and around Bergneustadt, North Rhine-Westphalia) and Austria.

Young villagers, most of them farmers, before the first wave of emigration to Germany.