Life in Iliç

I am currently living in İliç for work. 120km away from Erzincan.


The goal here is, to let you know how you can make life easier and happier here with the limited resources.


I suggest you get yourself a car and/or a driver. Hit the road!
 

 Women getting ready for winter. 

Picnic. 
Fishing and swimming - not in Fırat itself but the branches.


Postbox!

Horses on the road:

Shepard:

Poppy Field:

Anemone:

Train:

Fall in İliç:

House by the road:

Kuruçay (Village)

Karakaya Dam | Elazığ

Halil Rıfat Pasha Bridge | Sivas

1882- thereon

Detail:

Pingen (Adatepe) Village | Sivas

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Train:

Woman on a Donkey:

Rıza Bey:

An old house in Pingen:

An old Armenian Church:

Fırat (Euphrates):

Sultansuyu Horse Farm | Malatya

About 365km on the southwest of Erzincan in Malatya.

Uluyamaç Village

And the bees are purple too!

Ardos, Lake - Kemah

Swim!

Divriği Great Mosque | Sivas

Divriği Great Mosque in Sivas:
"Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital (Turkish: Divriği Ulu Cami ve Darüşşifa) is an ornately decorated mosque and medical complex built in 1299 in the small eastern Anatolian mountain town of Divriği, now in Sivas Province in Turkey. The architect was Hürremshah of Ahlat and the mosque was built on the order of Ahmet Shah, ruler of the Beylik of Mengücek. The inscriptions contain words of praise to the Anatolian Seljuk sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I. The adjoining medical center (darüşşifa) was built simultaneously with the mosque on the order of Turan Melek Sultan, daughter of the Mengücek ruler of Erzincan, Fahreddin Behram Shah." Wikipedia


201km from Erc city center.

Included on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1985.


The shadow of the man praying.

The building is famous for being symmetrical. There are 3D carvings on the doors which form shapes of a man reading Quran and praying (3 different shadows) on the male entrance and a woman again praying on the female entrance on the East.


The female entrance door bears the carvings of the Heaven and it is known as the Textile Door due to the magnificient details of the reliefs.     


There are many symbols of Islamic Mysticism describing the Other World, and the conditions to be accepted in Heaven.


Lots to tell. More soon.

Adıyaman - Nemrut

Adıyaman:
Adıyaman (the ancient Perre or Pordonnium, Ancient Greek: Περρη, Kurdish: Semsûr) is city in southeastern Turkey, capital of theAdıyaman Province. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in Turkey. The population rose from 100,045 (1990) to 198,433 ^[1](2009 census figures).


425 km from Erc city center.

Mount Nemrut:

Sunset:

Sunrise:

Note: Please make sure you get layers and layers of warm clothes on you plus 2 blankets. We were frozen in August, 2009! (no kidding!)