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The Karacaahmet Cemetery ((トルコ語:Karacaahmet Mezarlığı)) is a 700-year-old historic cemetery, located in Üsküdar, the Asian side of Istanbul. Karacaahmet cemetery is the oldest in Istanbul and at , the largest burial ground in Turkey. The cemetery was named after a warrior companion of Orhan I, the second Ottoman sultan and is believed to have been founded in the mid-14th century. It is estimated that over a million people are interred in the non-profit cemetery.〔 Karacaahmet Cemetery comprises 12 parcels, each dedicated to different religious groups. Many historical headstones can still be seen with inscriptions written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, a version of the Arabic alphabet,. The burial ground is covered by high cypress trees.〔 The shrine of Karaca Ahmet Sultan, a 13th-century physician and saint of Alevis, a sect of Islam, is situated within the cemetery.〔 There are also many other historical tombs and masjids, which is the Arabic word for mosques, built during the Ottoman period. ==Notable burials== List in sorted order of the year of death. ;Historical: * Sheikh Hamdullah (1436-1520), calligrapher * Benderli Ali Pasha, Sultan Mahmud II's Grand Vizier ;1940s: * Kaçı Vehip Pasha (1877-1940), Ottoman general * Ali bey Huseynzade〔 (1864-1940), Azerbaijani writer, thinker, philosopher, artist and doctor, and was the creator of the modern Flag of Azerbaijan.〔 ;1950s: * Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889-1956), novelist * Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez (1877-1958), * Osman Zeki Üngör (1880-1958), composer, initial conductor of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra, general ;1960s: * Fikret Mualla Saygı (1903-1967), painter ;1970s: * Nihal Atsız (1905-1975), nationalist writer, novelist, poet and philosopher ;1980s: * Burhan Felek (1889-1982), journalist * Oktay Rifat Horozcu (1914-1988), poet * Ömer Boncuk (1917-1988), footballer and high school teacher ;1990s: * Deniz Lokman (1974-1996), model ;2000s: * Cem Karaca (1945-2004), rock musician * Nezihe Viranyalı (1925-2004), female aviator * Arif Mardin (1932-2006), Turkish-American music producer * Mustafa Şekip Birgöl (1903-2008), retired colonel and the last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence * Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914-2008), poet * Gazanfer Özcan(1931-2009), actor ;2010s: * Esin Afşar (1936-2011), singer and stage actress * Sait Maden (1931–2013), translator, poet, painter and graphic designer * Oktay Sinanoğlu (1935-2015), theoretical chemist〔 * Tahsin Şahinkaya (1925-2015), Air Force general and one of the five leaders of the 1980 military coup 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karacaahmet Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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