Complex sentence: Qochanis, also Qudshanes or Kotchanes, a town to the North of Hakkari in the Southeastern corner of present Turkey, near the Greater Zab River, was the seat of the patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Seventeenth Century until 1915.
Split into simpler sentences: Qochanis, also known as Qudshanes or Kotchanes, is a town to the north of Hakkari in the southeastern corner of modern Turkey near the Greater Zab River. It was the seat of the patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Seventeenth Century until 1915.