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Gevaş

District and municipality in Van, Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Gevaş (Armenian: Ոստան, romanized: Vostan, lit.'[princely] court';[2] Kurdish: Westan[3]) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey.[4] Its area is 1,544 km2,[5] and its population is 26,918 (2022).[1] In the last elections of March 2019, Murat Sezer from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected Mayor.[6] As Kaymakam, Hamit Genç was appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoĝan in July 2019.[7]

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The municipality is populated by Kurds.[3]

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History

Historically, Gevaş was for some time the main town of the Armenian kingdom of Vaspurakan and later between the 14th and 15th centuries the centre of a small Kurdish emirate. In their time the settlement had moved nearer to the lake.[2] Later the town was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. Before World War I, the district had a Kurdish Muslim majority with a large Christian Armenian minority.

Main sights include surviving ruins of the castle, the monumental tomb known as Halime Hatun Kümbeti, built in 1358, very likely for the daughter of a local emir,[2] a mosque built before 1446 (restoration in that year), the tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim, father of Halime Hatun[2] as well as the ruins of an Armenian church in Ili, probably built after 941 and an Armenian Church/monastery on Kuş Island west of Aghtamar Island.[2]

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Composition

There are 42 neighbourhoods in Gevaş District:[8]

  • Abalı
  • Akdamar
  • Aladüz
  • Altınsaç
  • Anaköy
  • Atalan
  • Aydınocak
  • Bağlama
  • Bahçelievler
  • Barışık
  • Dağyöre
  • Daldere
  • Değirmitaş
  • Dereağzı
  • Dilmetaş
  • Dokuzağaç
  • Elmalı
  • Göründü
  • Gündoğan
  • Güzelkonak
  • Hasbey
  • Hişet
  • İkizler
  • İnköy
  • Karşıyaka
  • Kayalar
  • Kazanç
  • Kızıltaş
  • Koçak
  • Kurultu
  • Kuşluk
  • Orta
  • Pınarbaşı
  • Selimiye
  • Timar
  • Töreli
  • Uğurveren
  • Uysal
  • Yanıkçay
  • Yemişlik
  • Yoldöndü
  • Yuva

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