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Süleyman the Magnificent’s inscription on Bitlis fortress in eastern Turkey read, registered
Süleyman the Magnificent’s inscription on Bitlis fortress in eastern Turkey read, registered
An inscription ordered by Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent on a wall of the Bitlis fortress in eastern Turkey has been read and registered. Click through for the story in photos...
The much neglected inscription has two lines in the “sülüs” form of a Turkish phrase in the Ottoman alphabet, Dr. Kormaz Şen, an advisor on history for the ongoing excavations at the fortress, told state-run Anadolu Agency on Sept. 28.
“Sultan Süleyman, the son of Sultan Selim, who is the greatest, the most just, the most majestic and the most generous sultan, ordered the repair of this high, beautiful and holy fortress in the [Hijri] year 942 [1535),” the inscription on the marble panel reads.
The inscription was first recorded by J. Shiel in 1838 but it had not been read or officially registered, as its damaged condition made it more difficult.
Ottomans had first conquered the area under Sultan Selim, but it fell under the Safavids in Iran soon afterward, until it was taken back from them by Sultan Süleyman.
It is thought the history of the fortress goes many centuries and even millennia before Ottoman rule, possibly to the Urartians and even the Hurrians from the third millenium BCE.
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