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The Karacaahmet Cemetery, located in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, is the oldest and, at 750 acres, the largest cemetery in Turkey.

Karacaahmet was named after a warrior companion of Orhan, the second Ottoman sultan and is believed to have been founded in the mid-14th century. It is estimated that over a million people are interred in the non-profit cemetery.

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References

  1. "Time Out Istanbul" (HTML). Time Out. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
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