Bitlis Province

sights.uz lists 16 historic and notable places in Bitlis Province, Turkey. Among them are 12 monuments, 3 eco-tourism sites and 1 museums.

Lake Nazik

Lake Nazik (Turkish: Nazik; Armenian: Նազիկ, Kurdish: Gola Nazikê) is a freshwater lake in the Ahlat district, Bitlis Province, eastern part of Turkey. It is close to Lake Van.…

Lake Aygır

Lake Aygır (Turkish: Aygır Gölü) is a lake in the Adilcevaz district of Bitlis province. It is located at the southern foot of Süphan Mountain..

The Tombstones of Ahlat the Urartian and Ottoman citadel

The Tombstones of Ahlat is the world's largest Turkish-Islamic cemetery in the Middle Ages, located in the Ahlat district of Bitlis in Turkey. The cemetery is an open-air museum…

Emir Bayındır Mosque

Emir Bayındır Mosque (Turkish: Emir Bayındır Mescidi) is a 15th‑century mosque in Ahlat, Bitlis Province, Turkey. It was commissioned by the Akkoyunlu lord Emir Bayındır ibn…

Nemrut Caldera

Nemrut Caldera is the caldera of Mount Nemrut located in the province of Bitlis, Turkey.

Emir Bayındır Tomb

The Emir Bayındır Tomb (Turkish: Emir Bayındır Kümbeti), also known as the Parmaklıklı Tomb (Turkish: Parmaklıklı Kümbet), is the tomb of Emir Bayındır bin Rüstem, a bey of the…

İskenderpaşa Mosque

İskenderpaşa Mosque is located within the Old Ahlat Castle in Ahlat, Bitlis. According to its inscription, Çerkes İskender Pasha, the first Beylerbey of Van Province,…

Category:Ahlat Museum

Ahlat Museum is an archaeology and city museum in Ahlat.

Emir Bayandur Mosque

Emir Bayındır Mosque stands in Ahlat, in Turkey's Bitlis province, and was built in the late 1470s under the patronage of the Akkoyunlu lord Emir Bayındır ibn Rüstem, with…

Great Mosque of Bitlis

Bitlis Grand Mosque is located in the city center of Bitlis. According to its inscription, it was commissioned in 1153 by Ebul Muzaffer Muhammed of the Mervanids under Seljuk…

Hatibiye Medresesi

Hatibiye Medresesi is a former Islamic school built in the Seljuk architectural style in the old center of Bitlis, in eastern Turkey, standing close to the historic Alemdar…

Bitlis Şerefiye Medresesi

Bitlis Şerefiye Medresesi forms part of the Şerefiye complex built in 1529 by Şeref Han, a local ruling bey associated with the Ottoman court of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent.…

Alemdar Mosque

Alemdar Mosque stands in the Muştakbaba neighborhood of Bitlis, in eastern Turkey, set beside one of the small streams that run through the old town. The mosque complex is known…

Bitlis Şerefiye Mosque

Bitlis Şerefiye Mosque was built in 1529 by Şeref Han, the ruler of the local Şerefhan principality that governed Bitlis under Ottoman suzerainty. It is counted among the "five…

Meydan Mosque

Meydan Mosque was built between about 1520 and 1530 by the Şerefhan rulers of Bitlis, in eastern Turkey, and takes its name from its role as a mosque facing the town's open…

Gökmeydan Mosque

Gökmeydan Mosque is one of the historic mosques of Bitlis in eastern Turkey, grouped locally among the city's "five minarets," though the exact date of its original Ottoman-era…