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A small castle stands on a high hill north of the village of Muşalikalesi in Akdağmadeni, also known as Behramşah Castle. It belonged to Necmeddin Bahramşah-ı Candar, one of the commanders of Gıyaseddin Keykavus (1237–1246), and is thought to have been built in the first half of the thirteenth century.
The high walls are rubble faced with cut stone. Inside, those courses are laid crosswise like brickwork, producing a zigzag pattern across the wall surface. Three small elongated rectangular towers stand on the west and north outer walls. A large part of the castle is still standing.
Two tombs lie on the western skirt of the hill below the castle. The one nearer the castle is that of Ali Çelebi and the lower one that of Mahmut Çelebi. There is a gravestone inside each and one outside; from the inscriptions the tombs should have been built between 871/1466 and 875/1471. They carry no ornament at all.
The lower of the two has lost its dome and its upper part, and is otherwise no different from the one above it. The broken gravestone inside it is inscribed with the 112th sura of the Qur'an; the other two give the name of the deceased and the date of death. The lower tomb may have been built in Receb 882/1477 and belongs to Mahmut Çelebi, son of Ali Çelebi and grandson of Muşallim. Juniper trees cover the burial chamber.
