Emir Ali Kümbeti stands on the road through the ruined city at Ahlat.
Its date is not known, and the reason is recorded: the inscription was broken during the Russian war. From its architecture the provincial directorate places it in the fourteenth century.
The plan is a square main chamber with a section in front of it whose walls rise in steps. In form, the directorate says, it resembles the other tomb towers at Ahlat rather than standing apart from them.
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).
