Van Province
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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.
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Van Province Van ili | |
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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.
Van province is dividit intae 12 destricts (destrict caipitals in bauld):
This 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.
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