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6 sourced records · 3 verified locations
The atlas holds 6 records for Kırklareli. Each record's sources and review status are shown on its own page. Breakdown: 5 Saints · 1 Martyr.
Şeyh Bâlî was a Halveti sheikh who held a lodge (zaviye) in Vize. The Edirne Yearbook of H.1310 records that his lodge-form tomb stood in Vize; Abdurrahman Bâdî Efendi likewise relates that the lodge had fallen into ruin while the tomb remained standing. Vize was a long-standing Sufi centre hosting many lodges. (Sources: Edirne Provincial Yearbook H.1310; A. Bâdî Efendi, Riyâz-ı Belde-i Edirne; R. Engin)
Sarı Saltuk (d. 697/1297-98) was a legendary dervish-warrior prominent in the Islamization of Anatolia and the Balkans. After his death, cenotaph-lodges were opened in his name at several centres, one being the Eski Baba Lodge in Babaeski. The lodge-tomb was ruined during the Balkan War occupation and the 1925 closure of lodges, then fully destroyed during Istanbul-Edirne road works. His actual grave is held to be in Babadağı, Romania; Babaeski is a makam (cenotaph). (Sources: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi 'Sarı Saltuk' [M. Kiel]; F. Maden, Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi 2020)
Şühûdî Muhammed Efendi (d. 1021/1612) was a Halveti sheikh and poet born in Hasköy. He reached spiritual maturity under Şeyh Yâkûb Efendi, then returned home to serve as imam-preacher at the Ali Pasha Mosque in Babaeski. He is recorded as having a divan and was buried in Babaeski. (Sources: Mahmûd Cemâleddîn-i Hulvî, Lemezât-ı Hulviyye, Süleymaniye Lib. no. 4536, p.157; Evliyalar Ansiklopedisi)
The Zindan Baba Tomb in Lüleburgaz (Kocasinan neighbourhood) is an Ottoman, Bursa-type single-domed structure standing where the dungeon of Lüleburgaz Castle once was. Its oldest record is the Edirne Yearbook of H.1310. The identity of the buried figure is uncertain, contested between folk narrative and historical record; one view proposes he may be Kasım Paşa, son of Sokollu Mehmed Paşa. It is a registered monument open to visitors. (Sources: Kırklareli Cultural Heritage Inventory, reg. 39-05-708; TÜRÜK Journal)
Hızır Baba is regarded as one of the saints of Kırklareli, said to have lived between 1358 and 1413. His tomb in the central Demirtaş neighborhood is dated to the 15th-century Ottoman period; it contains a sarcophagus within a restored building and is open to visitors. (Sources: Kültür Envanteri; Kırklareli Governorate / local records.)
Binbiroklu Ahmet Baba was one of the first raider-commanders of the Ottoman expansion into Rumelia under Sultan Murad I, martyred during the conquest of Pınarhisar in 1369. His octagonal domed 14th-century tomb stands at the entrance of Erenler village, Pınarhisar district, open to visitors. (Sources: Kültür Portalı; Pınarhisar District Governorate; Kültür Envanteri.)
