Churches of Lindos

The old Turkish cemetery

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Abandoned, desecrated, unloved A top stone denotes a male occupant

  THE OLD TURKISH GRAVEYARD survives - just. It has been severely desecrated, and sits just below the square on the way to the beach. Lindos, and all of Rodos, was under Turkish rule for about four centuries until 1918 - at the end of the first world war it was briefly free for a couple of years until Mussolini took it over. It was reunited with Greece in 1945.   As Lawrence Durrell observed, the cemetery was the last resting place of civil servants, exiles, and merchants who never made it home. Traces of painting survive on some tombs, as well as just a couple of top stones, which denote whether the occupant is male or female. Otherwise, it is all very sad. Nobody seems to care much about this place, or even know that it is there - it isn't marked on any maps.    

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