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Ahlat
Ahlat is a town on the north-western shore of Lake Van in eastern Turkey, known in medieval sources as Khilat. Held by Armenian, Arab and Kurdish rulers, it became the capital of the Shah-Armens, a Turkish dynasty that ruled from 1100 to 1207, and then passed to the Ayyubids, the Mongols and the Ottomans. Its cemetery of the Seljuk period, with thousands of carved tombstones, is among the largest Muslim burial grounds in Anatolia.
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