Gevaş
Vostan • Ոստան | |
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District and
municipality | |
Coordinates: 38°17′52″N 43°06′20″E / 38.29778°N 43.10556°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Van |
Government | |
• Mayor | Murat Sezer ( AKP) |
Area | 1,544 km2 (596 sq mi) |
Population (2022)
[1] | 26,918 |
• Density | 17/km2 (45/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+3 ( TRT) |
Postal code | 65700 |
Area code | 0432 |
Website |
www |
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]
The municipality is populated by Kurds. [3]
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 in the Ottoman Empire. Before World War I, the district had a 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 Kuşadası Island west of Aghtamar Island. [2]
There are 42 neighbourhoods in Gevaş District: [8]
Gevaş
Vostan • Ոստան | |
---|---|
District and
municipality | |
Coordinates: 38°17′52″N 43°06′20″E / 38.29778°N 43.10556°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | Van |
Government | |
• Mayor | Murat Sezer ( AKP) |
Area | 1,544 km2 (596 sq mi) |
Population (2022)
[1] | 26,918 |
• Density | 17/km2 (45/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+3 ( TRT) |
Postal code | 65700 |
Area code | 0432 |
Website |
www |
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]
The municipality is populated by Kurds. [3]
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 in the Ottoman Empire. Before World War I, the district had a 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 Kuşadası Island west of Aghtamar Island. [2]
There are 42 neighbourhoods in Gevaş District: [8]