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Evliya Çelebi and the town cemetery of Ilok

The aim of this paper is a presentation and archaeological confirmation of the written records by the Ottoman travelogue writer Evliya Celebi’s concerning the location of the town cemetery during the Ottoman Empire. The rescue excavation conducted in 2016 in the Vlatka Kraljevića Street in Ilok resulted in a limited number of burials with almost no grave-goods indicating the existence of an early modern period cemetery at this location. This assumption was additionally confirmed by radiocarbon dating of several human bone samples retrieved from the excavated burials. Beside the archaeological characteristics, this paper will also present the results of the bioarchaeological analysis.

Evliya Çelebi ; cemetery ; early modern period ; bioarchaeology

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