The Sipahi cemetery lies about a kilometre south of Evrenbey village in the Malkara district of Tekirdağ, and it is the largest cemetery of its kind in Thrace. The gravestones are sandstone and stand between 3.5 and four metres tall, with no inscription or decoration of any kind on them.
Because they carry nothing written, who set them up is not established; the possibility that they belong to the Avars or the Huns has been raised. Two stones in the cemetery, evidently put up later, are dated 1589 and 1595. Minibuses to Evrenbey run from Malkara.
Getting there
- Access
- The cemetery lies about 1 km south of Evrenbey village; minibuses for Evrenbey leave from Malkara.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Tekirdağ as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.9 °C in January to 23.9 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (79 mm) and lightest in August (15 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
