Our compilation for Bitlis, not an official route, and one thing about it is worth knowing before you read the list.
Ahlat, on the shore of Lake Van northeast of Bitlis, holds several of these entries: the Emir Bayındır tomb tower, the Seljuk cemetery and the Ahlat Museum. That is one journey, not three, whatever order they appear in.
Bitlis town itself holds the castle, the İhlasiye medrese, the Gökmeydan mosque and the ethnography museum, close together in the centre.
Two pages on this route are thin, and it is the sources that are thin rather than the places: the Yusufiye medrese and the Narlıdere bridge have very short source documents, so their pages carry the recorded facts rather than a written guide. What each place is, and who says so, is on its own page.
