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05-SEP-2006

Ahlat 2006 09 0694.jpg

Turkey, Ahlat view map

In the back of the museum and stretching for hundreds of meters there is a huge graveyard, with another türbe or tomb, seemingly at its end, but in reality at the other side of a gully. I took lots of pictures there, but am unable to state anything about what's written on the, often partly toppled, stones. Some of them are taller then I am, making them some two meters or more.

Here you can see that türbe, I am almost there. In its back there turns out to be another türbe that seems to be half finished, or maybe never was intended to have an upper floor. The finished / large one is the Hasan Padişah Kümbeti. It was made in 1274. It was built by Aka Bin Mahmut.

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