Ahlat

Ahlat is a town in 's in . It is the seat of Ahlat District. The town had a population of 27,563 in 2021. The town of Ahlat is situated on the northwestern shore of . The mayor is Abdulalim Mümtaz Çoban.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Town with 42,100 residents
  • Description: town and district of Bitlis province in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Erkizan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Medieval Muslim cemetery of Ahlat and Emir Bayındır Mosque.

Photo: Mehmetkrckrc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tombstones of Ahlat is the world's largest Turkish-Islamic cemetery in the Middle Ages, located in the Ahlat district of in . The cemetery is an open-air museum today.

Mosque
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 15th‑century in Ahlat, , . It was commissioned by the Akkoyunlu lord Emir Bayındır ibn Rüstem and completed in 1477 or 1478. The building’s architect was Baba Can Bey.

Museum
Photo: Shiftetelli, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uludere and Yeniköprü.

Village
is a village in the Ahlat District of in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Elîkan tribe and had a population of 421 in 2021. is situated 5 km northeast of Ahlat.

Village
, formerly Karmunj, is a village in the Ahlat District of in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds and had a population of 974 in 2021. is situated 6 km southwest of Ahlat.

Ahlat

Latitude
38.7547° or 38° 45′ 17″ north
Longitude
42.4833° or 42° 29′ east
Population
42,100
Elevation
1,708 metres (5,604 feet)
Open location code
8HC4QF3M+V8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 129442224
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
325103
Wiki­data ID
Q400362
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Ahlat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أخلاط”
  • Arabic: “خلاط”
  • Arabic: “خِلَاطُ”
  • Armenian: “Ախլաթ”
  • Armenian: “Խլաթ”
  • Asturian: “Ahlat (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Ahlat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əhlat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əxlat”
  • Belarusian: “Ахлат”
  • Catalan: “Ahlat”
  • Cebuano: “Ahlat”
  • Central Kurdish: “خەلات”
  • Chechen: “АхӀлат”
  • Chinese: “Ahlat”
  • Chinese: “阿赫拉特”
  • Danish: “Ahlat”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Xelat”
  • Dutch: “Ahlat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اخلاط”
  • French: “Ahlat”
  • French: “Akhlat”
  • French: “Khilat”
  • Gagauz: “Ahlat”
  • German: “Ahlat”
  • German: “Chlat”
  • Gilaki: “أخلاط”
  • Hebrew: “אח’לאט”
  • Hungarian: “Ahlat”
  • Irish: “Ahlat”
  • Italian: “Ahlat”
  • Italian: “Akhlat”
  • Japanese: “アフラート”
  • Japanese: “アフラト”
  • Japanese: “ヒラート”
  • Kazakh: “Ахлат”
  • Kazakh: “Аһлат”
  • Kurdish: “Xelat”
  • Malay: “Ahlat”
  • Mazanderani: “اخلاط”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ahlat”
  • Minangkabau: “Ahlat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ahlat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ahlat”
  • Norwegian: “Ahlat”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “اخلاط”
  • Persian: “اخلاط”
  • Polish: “Ahlat”
  • Portuguese: “Ahlat”
  • Portuguese: “Aquelate”
  • Romanian: “Ahlat”
  • Russian: “Аклат”
  • Russian: “Ахлат”
  • Russian: “Ахлят”
  • Russian: “Хелят”
  • Serbian: “Ахлат”
  • Serbian: “Хлат” (historical)
  • South Azerbaijani: “اخلاط”
  • Swahili: “Ahlat”
  • Swedish: “Ahlat”
  • Tatar: “Ахлат”
  • Turkish: “Ahlat, Bitlis”
  • Turkish: “Ahlat”
  • Ukrainian: “Ахлат”
  • Urdu: “اخلاط”
  • Vietnamese: “Ahlat”
  • Western Armenian: “Ախլաթ”
  • Western Armenian: “Խլաթ”
  • Western Mari: “Ахлат”

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