AN EAST ANATOLIAN BUILDING FROM THE AGE OF TIMUR: YELMANİYE MEDRESE

Özet

Öz Tke most notakle kistorical strueture, in Çemişkezek (Tunceli) in our opinion, is tke Yelıııaniye Medrese kuilt in tlıe seetion callcd Tepekaşı. Tke Medrese is set upon. a kili wlıiek dominates tke town of Çemişkezek. It is kıı- ilt on tkc eastern slope wkick faccs tkc town, iııırnediately kekind tke road, witk no cicaring left in froııt. Tke setting indicates a consciousness of city oııtlay on tke part of tkc kuilders. 'Vs tke kuilding is presently uscd as a mosque, it is soınctiınes callcd tke “Medrese Mosquc” ky tkc local pcople. Tke medrese, kuilt around tke end of tke XI\'. century-tke beginniiıg of XV. centurv, coustitutes a very interesting specimen of tkc closed Ana- tolian nıedreses owing to tke ckaracteristics of its plan, wkick in vites various iıiterpretations.