The tomb at Ahlat is built in the manner of the later Ahlat tomb towers, and the provincial directorate notes that it draws a heavy flow of visitors.
The provincial directorate records that Abdurrahman Gazi was one of the Companions of the Prophet, serving under İyaz bin Ganem, commander of El-Cezire, who was charged in the year 641, in the time of Caliph Umar, with taking the region. He fell here during the conquest of Ahlat.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bitlis as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -4.2 °C in January to 23.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (196 mm) and lightest in August (7 mm). Long-term means for 2011-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
