The poet Yunus Emre (c.?1238–1320) resided in Karaman during his later on a long time and is also thought to lie buried beside the Yunus Emre Mosque. A little adjacent park is adorned with quotations from his verse, a lot of them graffiti-splattered. In 1222, the Sufi preacher Bahaeddin Veled arrived in city along with his household, and also the