Van Province
Van Province (Turkis: Van ili) is a province in eastren Turkey, atween Lake Van an the Iranian border. It is 19,069 km2 in area an haes a population o 1,035,418.
Van Province Van ili | |
|---|---|
 Location of Van Province in Turkey | |
| Kintra | Turkey |
| Region | Eastren Anatolie |
| Govrenment | |
| • Electoral destrict | Van |
| Area | |
| • Tot | 19,069 km2 (7,363 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[1] | |
| • Tot | 1,100,190 |
| • Density | 58/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Area code(s) | 0432[2] |
| Vehicle registration | 65 |
Its adjacent provinces are Bitlis tae the wast, Siirt tae the soothwast, Şırnak an Hakkâri tae the sooth, an Ağrı tae the north. The caipital is Van (Armenie: Վան Van, Kurdish: Wan). The province an the surroondin area is the hame o famous Van kedisi (Van cat).
On Januar 9, 1990 in Van wis recordit the lawest temperatur in Turkey wi -46.4 °C.
Destricts
eeditVan province is dividit intae 12 destricts (destrict caipitals in bauld):
History
eeditThis area wis the hertland o Armenians, who lived in thir areas frae the time o Hayk in the 3rd millennium BC richt up tae the late 19t century when the Ottoman Empire seized aw the land frae the natives.[3] In the 9t century BC the Van area wis the centre o the Urartian kinrick.[4] Frae 7t century BC up tae Islamic conquest o Persians (640 AD), Van haes been unner different Persian dynasties o Merdia, Achaemenids, Arcasids an Sassanids. In 908-1021 wis central pairt o Armenian Kinrick o Vaspurakan, then jynt Byzantine Empire. Wi the Seljuq victory at the Battle o Malazgirt in 1071, juist north o Lake Van,[5] it became a pairt o Seljuq Empire an later the Ottoman Empire. For centuries efter that, the area wis a major Armenian population centre.
Gallery
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- Medieval Armenie monasteries in the Van Province
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The Armenie Cathedral o the Holy Cross (10t c.) on Akhtamar Island -
The Armenie Monastery o Narek (10t c.) -
Varagavank Armenie monastery (11t c.) -
The Armenie Monastery o Saunt Bartholomew (13t c.)
See an aa
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Notes
eedit- ↑ Turkish Statistical Institute, MS Excel document – Population of province/district centers and towns/villages and population growth rate by provinces
- ↑ Area codes page of Turkish Telecom website Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkis)
- ↑ Hofmann (ed.), Tessa (2004). Verfolgung, Vertreibung und Vernichtung der Christen im Osmanischen Reich 1912-1922 [Persecution, Expulsion and Annihilation of the Christian Population in the Ottoman Empire 1912-1922]. Münster: LIT. ISBN 3-8258-7823-6.CS1 maint: extra text: authors leet (link)
- ↑ European History in a World Perspective - Page 68 by Shepard Bancroft Clough
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 4 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Freemit airtins
eeditCoordinates: 38°29′57″N 43°40′13″E / 38.49917°N 43.67028°E
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