Van, Turkey
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| Coordinates: 38°29′39″N 43°22′48″E / 38.49417°N 43.38°E | |
| Govrenment | |
| - Mayor | Bekir Kaya (BDP) |
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| - Tot | 2,289 km2 (883.8 sq mi) |
| Hicht | 1,730 m (5,676 ft) |
| Indwallers (2010) | |
| - Tot | 367,419 |
Van ( Kurdish: Wan Armenie: Վան Van,[1] ) is a ceety in sootheastren Turkey an the seat o the Kurdish-majority[2] Van Province, an is locatit on the eastren shore o Lake Van. The ceety's offeecial population in 2010 wis 367,419,[3] but mony estimates put this as hintle heicher wi a 1996 estimate statin 500,000[4] an umwhile Mayor Burhan Yengun quotit as sayin it mey be as heich as 600,000.[5]
The Van Central destrict stretches ower 2,289 square kilometers.[6]
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References [edit]
- ↑ Slovar sovremennikh geographicheskikh nazvaniy (in Russian) / Ed. by acad. V.M. Kotliakov, Yekaterinburg, U-Faktoria, 2006
- ↑ State-Tribe Relations: Kurdish Tribalism in the 16th-and 17th-Century Ottoman Empire, H Ozoglu - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1996 - JSTOR
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- ↑ David McDowall, "Modern History of the Kurds," I.B. Tauris, 1996, pg 440
- ↑ TESEV. "An Assessment of the Van Action Plan for the Internally Displaced" Accessed at http://www.tesev.org.tr/UD_OBJS/PDF/DEMP/TESEV_VanActionPlanReport.pdf.
- ↑ http://www.sanalda1numara.net/dogu-anadolu-bolgesi/166142-van-ili-tarihcesi-yuzolcumu-nufus-ve-sosyal-yapi-ilceleri.html Van Central district (sanalda1numara.net)
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External links [edit]
- Governorship of Van
- Municipality of Van
- Van 100th Year University
- Plan of Van city as it was before 1915
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