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Hacı Bektaş is 45 km away from Nevşehir on Nevşehir - Kirşehir road.
Pieces of arts which are belong to Ancient bronze Age, Hittite,
Frig, Hellenistic and Roman Periods, and found as a result of
excavations performed at province center are exhibited at Hacı
Bektaş Archeology Museum.
There is a Karaburna rock monument, which is written with
Hittite hieroglyph, which belongs to Late Hittite Period, like at
Topada and Sivasa, near to Karaburna village near to Hacı Bektaş.
Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli and His Philosophy
It is thought that Hacı Bektaş - ı Veli, whose real name was
Muhammed bin Musa and dates of birth and death are not certainly
known, is born on 1209 - 1210, and died on 1270 - 1271. According
to the told epics, he is from Nişabur. His childhood and youth is
passed in Horasan, and learned philosophy, social and fundamental
sciences at Hoca Ahmet Yesevi School. Hacibektaş, had come to
Anatolia from Horasan in a period, when Seljukian's political and
economical order is corrupted, and divisions in management existed;
and showed his best efforts for maintaining Turkish unity, and to
become Anatolia into Turk and Islamic with visiting every villages
and cities. He had trained young people in the school, which is
established by him in formerly named as Sulucakarahöyük and
currently named as Hacibektaş province; and tried to prevent
Turkish language and culture from foreign impacts and degeneration.
His tolerance and humanity based thought system is reached and
assumed by wide public masses within a short period of time. "End
of the road, which don't follow science, is dark", "Let women to be
studied ", "Hold your hand, tongue and waist", "research is an open
examination", "Whatever you search, search into yourself", "Don't
forget that even your enemy is a human". Above mentioned epigrams
are best explaining the philosophy of Hacı Bektaş - ı Veli. His
alignment is reflecting the same understanding with 1948 Human
Rights Universal Declaration. |