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Edirne is a city of culture and civilization and Ottoman Empire’s capital city for about a thousand of years. The city produced many poets and man of letters and at the same time diversified and enriched Turkish culture in many respects. In this city that has a rooted cultural, geographical and literary heritage, a great number of works of art and literature that have been produced in the past and today are waiting for examined by researchers.
In this article, which was presented as a paper presentation formerly, after a general introduction for the purpose of description, informations about Edirne inscriptions are outlined; several examples of inscriptions differing in terms of writing, genre and content are presented. Also in the article, the poem of our national poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy, which was written for a fountain in Edirne –that has not been published anywhere before- is included.