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The old part of the cemetery, including an area called "Mısır Tarlası" (literally: Corn Field), hosts graves of personalities from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The other part of the cemetery consists of two grounds, Edirnekapı Cemetery and Sakızağacı Cemetery. Soldiers, who fought and were
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made his triumphal entry into the conquered city. There is however no historical or archaeological evidence for this, the oldest known graves date from ca. 1600 AD. The cemetery is situated outside Edirnekapı (literally:
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district, in the European part of the city. It consists of an old, historical part and a modern one. War graves of fallen Ottoman soldiers during the
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The cemetery is said originally to have been formed with the graves of the
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denotes the number of such historical graves with around 13,000.
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military personnel and law enforcement officials, firefighters,
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of the city walls, on top of the sixth hill of the old city.
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Symbolic empty graves of Ottoman soldiers fallen during the
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Name board of fallen soldiers in front of a grave row
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Edirnekapı
Istanbul
Turkey
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41°02′1.68″N 28°55′58.80″E / 41.0338000°N 28.9330000°E / 41.0338000; 28.9330000
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