Van, Turkey
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]
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| Coordinates: 38°29′39″N 43°22′48″E / 38.49417°N 43.38000°E | |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Bekir Kaya (BDP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,289 km2 (884 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1730 m (5,680 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 367,419 |
The Van Central destrict stretches ower 2,289 square kilometers.[6]
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References eedit
- ↑ Slovar sovremennikh geographicheskikh nazvaniy (in Russian)[deid airtin] / 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
- ↑ [1] Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 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 Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ http://www.sanalda1numara.net/dogu-anadolu-bolgesi/166142-van-ili-tarihcesi-yuzolcumu-nufus-ve-sosyal-yapi-ilceleri.html Archived 2011-11-22 at the Wayback Machine Van Central district (sanalda1numara.net)
Bibliography eedit
- Hovannisian, Richard G., ed. (2000), Armenian Van/Vaspurakan , Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces , Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers , OCLC 44774992 Cite has empty unkent parameters:
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