BALIKISRI, a town of Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi vilayet, altitude 575ft., situated on rising ground above a fertile plain which drains to the Sea of Marmora. Pop. (1927) 134,617. It is a centre of trade in opium, silk and cereals, communicating by carriage roads with Panderma. The neighbourhood is rich in mineral wealth; silver mines are worked at Balia and boracite mines at Susurlu. At or near Balikisri was the Roman town of Hadrianutherae, founded, as its name commemorates, by the emperor Hadrian.