Van Province

Van Province () 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.

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 ( Van, ). 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 
Van province is dividit intae 12 destricts (destrict caipitals in bauld):
 Bahçesaray
 Başkale
 Çaldıran
 Çatak
 Edremit
 Erciş
 Gevaş
 Gürpınar
 Muradiye
 Özalp
 Saray
Van

 History 
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. In the 9t century BC the Van area wis the centre o the Urartian kinrick.European History in a World Perspective - Page 68 by Shepard Bancroft Clough 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, 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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 Ottoman Armenian Population
 Siege o Van

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 Freemit airtins 
 Picturs o the caipital o Van province

Category:Provinces o Turkey

Category:Eastren Anatolie Region