The Jewish Cemetery of Edirne
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The Jewish Cemetery of Edirne

Edirne, Edirne, Türkiye – *No GPS coordinates

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Edirne, the second capital of the Ottoman Empire (1365–1453), boasted a Jewish community of some five thousand out of a total population of approximately 100,000 at the conclusion of the sixteenth century. In 1831 there still were an estimated 5,400 Jews in the city. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the city was home to a large, prosperous community of 23,839 Jews that patronized its sister communities to the north in present-day Bulgaria and Macedonia. The 1914 census counted 13,889 souls. In 1922 and 1923, as war raged between the collapsing Ottoman Empire, later the Republic of Turkey, and Greece, much of the Jewish population departed Edirne. Many of those who then remained left for Istanbul in the wake of the 1934 Thrace Riots. Lingerers migrated to Israel after its establishment, and in 1998, only three Jews lived in the city. The Edirne cemetery once contained four-hundred-year-old monuments and occupied an area of some eighty-six acres. The land was expropriated in 1971 by the local government, and most monuments sold to building contractors. The 771 tombstones that remained were severely damaged. 

Edirne, the second capital of the Ottoman Empire (1365–1453), boasted a Jewish community of some five thousand out of a total population of approximately 100,000 at the conclusion of the sixteenth century. In 1831 there still were an estimated 5,400 Jews in the city. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the city was home to a large, prosperous community of 23,839 Jews that patronized its sister communities to the north in present-day Bulgaria and Macedonia. The 1914 census counted 13,889 souls. In 1922 and 1923, as war raged between the collapsing Ottoman Empire, later the Republic of Turkey, and Greece, much of the Jewish population departed Edirne. Many of those who then remained left for Istanbul in the wake of the 1934 Thrace Riots. Lingerers migrated to Israel after its establishment, and in 1998, only three Jews lived in the city. The Edirne cemetery once contained four-hundred-year-old monuments and occupied an area of some eighty-six acres. The land was expropriated in 1971 by the local government, and most monuments sold to building contractors. The 771 tombstones that remained were severely damaged. 

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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2784911