Van, Turkey

Van
Van
	City
	A view from Van
	Van
	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

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]

Sister ceeties

Odessa, Ukraine

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References

↑ 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

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: |lastauthoramp=, |laysummary=, and |separator= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

External links

[1] Slovar sovremennikh geographicheskikh nazvaniy (in Russian)^{[deid airtin]} / Ed. by acad. V.M. Kotliakov, Yekaterinburg, U-Faktoria, 2006

[2] State-Tribe Relations: Kurdish Tribalism in the 16th-and 17th-Century Ottoman Empire, H Ozoglu - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1996 - JSTOR

[3] [1] Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine

[4] David McDowall, "Modern History of the Kurds," I.B. Tauris, 1996, pg 440

[5] 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.

[6] ttp://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)

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