Seyyid Battal Ghazi
He is a popular hero, lived at the end of the VII th century and first quarter of the VIII th century. Seyyid Battal Ghazi, an Anatolian warrior, participated the surrounding of Istanbul and Anatolian campaigns of the Arabs, and rendered great service. He became a martyr in the war of Akrenion (Akrenions) occuring between the Arabs and the Byzantines (740). His grave in a tomb constructed for himself in the hill of Üçler in Seyitgazi.

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(According to a telling Seyyid died from a hit by a rock
that thrown by his girlfriend as a message,
it was wrapped with a love letter
.)

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