Van, Turkey

Van (   Van,Slovar sovremennikh geographicheskikh nazvaniy (in Russian) / Ed. by acad. V.M. Kotliakov, Yekaterinburg, U-Faktoria, 2006  ) is a ceety in sootheastren Turkey an the seat o the Kurdish-majorityState-Tribe Relations: Kurdish Tribalism in the 16th-and 17th-Century Ottoman Empire, H Ozoglu - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1996 - JSTOR Van Province, an is locatit on the eastren shore o Lake Van. The ceety's offeecial population in 2010 wis 367,419,  but mony estimates put this as hintle heicher wi a 1996 estimate statin 500,000David McDowall, "Modern History of the Kurds," I.B. Tauris, 1996, pg 440 an umwhile Mayor Burhan Yengun quotit as sayin it mey be as heich as 600,000.TESEV. "An Assessment of the Van Action Plan for the Internally Displaced" Accessed at http://www.tesev.org.tr/UD_OBJS/PDF/DEMP/TESEV_VanActionPlanReport.pdf .

The Van Central destrict stretches ower 2,289 square kilometers.http://www.sanalda1numara.net/dogu-anadolu-bolgesi/166142-van-ili-tarihcesi-yuzolcumu-nufus-ve-sosyal-yapi-ilceleri.html  Van Central district (sanalda1numara.net)

Sister ceeties
 Odessa, Ukraine

See an aw

 Caucasus Campaign
 2011 Van earthquake

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External links
 Governorship of Van
 Municipality of Van 
 Van 100th Year University
 Plan of Van city as it was before 1915

Category:Airchaeological steids in Turkey
Category:Umwhile caipitals o Armenie
Category:Armenie Genocide extermination centers
Category:Populatit places in Van Province