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Ahlat

Bitlis · Historic Sites

Miniature relief of Ahlat
AI drawing · Open data

Can a person’s life fit onto a stone? Their name, their prayer, perhaps their favorite ornament… Wandering among the gravestones of Ahlat, you look for the answer in the tall, slender stones that have risen skyward in the same place for centuries. For here, thousands of people entrusted their names, prayers and ornaments to stone, and went on their way…