Gevaş
Template:Infobox Turkey place Gevaş (Template:Langx;[1] Template:Langx[2]) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey.[3] Its area is 1,544 km2,[4] and its population is 26,918 (2022).[5] 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.[2]
History
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.[1] Later the town was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. Before World War I, the district had a Kurdish 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,[1] a mosque built before 1446 (restoration in that year), the tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim, father of Halime Hatun[1] as well as the ruins of an Armenian church in Ili, probably built after 941 and an Armenian Church/monastery on Kuş Island west of Aghtamar Island.[1]
Composition
There are 42 neighbourhoods in Gevaş District:[8]
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- Abalı
- Akdamar
- Aladüz
- Altınsaç
- Anaköy
- Atalan
- Aydınocak
- Bağlama
- Bahçelievler
- Barışık
- Dağyöre
- Daldere
- Değirmitaş
- Dereağzı
- Dilmetaş
- Dokuzağaç
- Elmalı
- Göründü
- Gündoğan
- Güzelkonak
- Hasbey
- Hişet
- İkizler
- İnköy
- Karşıyaka
- Kayalar
- Kazanç
- Kızıltaş
- Koçak
- Kurultu
- Kuşluk
- Orta
- Pınarbaşı
- Selimiye
- Timar
- Töreli
- Uğurveren
- Uysal
- Yanıkçay
- Yemişlik
- Yoldöndü
- Yuva
References
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- ↑ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
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- ↑ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
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