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Hoşab, Gürpınar
Hoşab (also: ''Hoşap'' or ''Xoşabê'') is the historical name of a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Gürpınar, Van, Gürpınar, Van Province, Turkey. Its present name is Güzelsu. Its population is 1,256 (2022). The Kurdish name (Hoşap) and the Turkish name (Güzelsu) of the village both translate as "beautiful water", referring to the Hoşap River on whose banks the village is sitting. Güzelsu is at a distance of approximately 50 km east of the city of Van, Turkey, Van. Description Located on the flat ground north of the Hoşap Castle rock, Güzelsu is surrounded by a mud-brick wall, much eroded today, but still quite striking. Flat roofed homes and stables made of mud-brick are filling a low depression between the castle mound and the mud-brick wall, while the new village is sitting on the opposite bank of the river along the Van-Hakkâri (city), Hakkari Highway (D.975). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Province
Van Province (, , Armenian: Վանի մարզ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in the Eastern Anatolian region of Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. Its area is 20,921 km2, and its population is 1,128,749 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Bitlis to the west, Siirt to the southwest, Şırnak and Hakkâri to the south, and Ağrı to the north. The capital of the province is the city of Van, with a population of 525,016 at the end of 2022. The second-largest city is Erciş, with 92,945 inhabitants at end 2022. The province was part of ancient province of Vaspurakan and is considered to be one of the cradles of Armenian civilization. Before the Armenian genocide, Van Province was one of the six Armenian vilayets. A majority of the population of the province is Kurdish. Demographics The province is mainly populated by Kurds and considered part of Turkish Kurdistan. The province had a significant Christian Armenian population until the genocide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gürpınar, Van
Gürpınar (, ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. With an area of , Gürpınar is the second-largest district of Turkey, after Karaman District. Its population is 31,865 (2022). The town Gürpınar is located south of the provincial capital Van. The district has several places of historical interest. The current mayor is Hayrullah Tanış from the Justice and Development Party (AKP). The current kaymakam Fatih Sayar was appointed in August 2019. Name The area's old Armenian name is Hayots Dzor (, meaning "Valley of the Armenians"). Its Kurdish name is Payizava; however, the Armenian-derived Xawesor is also used. The titular village of Gürpınar itself was also known to Armenians as Kghzi (, meaning "island", due to it being surrounded by the Shamiram Canal). History In Armenian mythology, Hayots Dzor is the valley where the Armenian progenitor Hayk defeated the army of the invading Babylonian king Bel and constructed a fortress (Haykaberd) nearby. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Güzelsu Surrounded By A Mud-brick Wall
Güzelsu (literally "beautiful water") is a Turkish place name that may refer to the following places in Turkey: * Güzelsu, Ahlat, a village * Güzelsu, Akseki, a village in the district of Akseki, Antalya Province * Güzelsu, Gerger, a village in the district of Gerger, Adıyaman Province * Güzelsu, Gürpınar, a neighborhood in Gürpınar (District), Van Gürpınar may refer to: Places * Gürpınar, Van, a district and municipality in Van Province * Gürpınar, Alaplı, a village in Zonguldak Province * Gürpınar, Bartın, a village in Bartın Province * Gürpınar, Çivril, a neighbourhood in Deni ... province * Güzelsu, Nusaybin * Güzelsu, Oltu {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turkish people, Turks, while ethnic Kurds in Turkey, Kurds are the Minorities in Turkey, largest ethnic minority. Officially Secularism in Turkey, a secular state, Turkey has Islam in Turkey, a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. First inhabited by modern humans during the Late Paleolithic, present-day Turkey was home to List of ancient peoples of Anatolia, various ancient peoples. The Hattians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TÜİK
Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; or TÜİK) is the Turkish government agency commissioned with producing official statistics on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It was founded in 1926 and headquartered in Ankara. Formerly named as the State Institute of Statistics (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü (DİE)), the institute was renamed as the Turkish Statistical Institute on November 18, 2005. See also * List of Turkish provinces by life expectancy References External linksOfficial website of the institute National statistical services Statistical Organizations established in 1926 Organizations based in Ankara {{Sci-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoşap River
The Hoşap River or Güzelsu River () is a river in the Van Province of Turkey. Its catchment area approximately coincides with the Gürpınar District. Geography From its source in the İspiriz Mountains near Başkale on the southeast borders of Van Province, the river tends to the northwest. It is cut by the Zernek Dam in the Gürpınar Plain and feeds into lake Van near Dönemeç. The part of the river flowing out of the dam is also called ''Dönemeç River''. At the end of the river there is the Dönemeç Delta that extends into lake Van. The delta is used by birds during migration and is a breeding area of the endangered White-headed duck and Caspian tern. The river regime of the Hoşap is nival. The lowest flow is 1.3 m³/sec in August, September and October. The highest flow is 12.6 m³/sec in May due to the rains and melting of snow. The total annual flow of the river is 334,106 m³/year. History Historically, the Hoşap River is known as the ''Khoshab'' or ''Anggh'' R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van, Turkey
Van (; ; ) is a city in eastern Turkey's Van Province, on the eastern shore of Lake Van. It is the capital and largest city of Van Province. Van has a long history as a major urban area. It has been a large city since the first millennium BCE, initially as Tushpa, the capital of the kingdom of Urartu from the 9th century BCE to the 6th century BCE, and later as the center of the Armenian kingdom of Vaspurakan. Turkic presence in Van and in the rest of Anatolia started as a result of Seljuk victory at the Battle of Malazgirt (1071) against the Byzantine Empire. Van was densely populated by Armenians until the Armenian genocide in the 1910s. Today, it is mostly inhabited by Kurds. History Archaeological excavations and surveys carried out in Van Province indicate that the history of human settlement in this region goes back at least as far as 5000 BCE. The Tilkitepe Mound, which is on the shores of Lake Van and a few kilometres to the south of Van Castle, is the onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoşap Castle
Hoşap Castle (, , ) is a large 17th-century castle located in the village of Hoşab, Gürpınar District, Van, Turkey. It is at a distance of approximately 50 km to the city center of Van. History The castle was built upon the foundations of a medieval Armenian fortress, preceded by an Urartian stronghold, with the eastern stretches and towers preserving the layout of the original Armenian structure. The Armenian structure had only two walls, one located near the keep and one at the present-day intermediate walls. Most of the surviving masonry, including the entrance tower and outer walls, was built or rebuilt in 1649 by Sarı Süleyman Bey, chief of the Kurdish Mahmudi tribe. The Mahmudi tribe which occupied the fortress of Hoşap were originally of Yezidi origin and migrated to the region from the Jazira Region. Hoşap means "fresh water" in Persian. The fortress received its name from the river of the same name. It was mentioned by 13th century Arab chronicler Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakkâri (city)
Hakkâri (), formerly known as Julamerk, (, , ) is a city and the seat of Hakkâri District in the Hakkâri Province of Turkey. The city is populated by Kurds and had a population of 58,470 in 2023. It is located about 40 kilometres from the Iraq–Turkey border, but the distance to the nearest Iraqi border crossing (Ibrahim Khalil Border Crossing) by road is about 270 km. Etymology According to medieval and most of modern scholars, Hakkari is named after a local Kurdish tribes, Kurdish tribe called Hakkariyya, Hakkâri. According to Nicholas Al-Jeloo, Hakkari is derived from the Akkadian word Ikkari or Aramaic Akkare, meaning farmers. Neighborhoods The city is divided into the neighborhoods of Bağlar, Berçelan, Biçer, Bulak, Dağgöl, Gazi, Halife Derviş, Karşıyaka, Keklikpınar, Kıran, Medrese, Merzan, Pehlivan, Sümbül and Yeni. History Prior to the Assyrian genocide of 1915, Hakkari was the home of Assyrians for centuries. After the genocide perpetrated by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointed Arch
A pointed arch, ogival arch, or Gothic arch is an arch with a pointed crown meet at an angle at the top of the arch. Also known as a two-centred arch, its form is derived from the intersection of two circles. This architectural element was particularly important in Gothic architecture. The earliest use of a pointed arch dates back to bronze-age Nippur. As a structural feature, it was first used in eastern Christian architecture, Byzantine architecture and Sasanian architecture, but in the 12th century it came into use in France and England as an important structural element, in combination with other elements, such as the rib vault and later the flying buttress. These allowed the construction of cathedrals, palaces and other buildings with dramatically greater height and larger windows which filled them with light. Early arches Crude arches pointed in shape have been discovered from the Bronze Age site of Nippur dated earlier than 2700 BC. The palace of Nineveh also has poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmudi (tribe)
The Mahmudi, also known as Pinyanişi, is a Kurdish tribe in the Lake Van region. History According to Evliya Çelebi (1611–1682) they had 60,000 warriors. The Yezidi Mahmudi tribe were loyal to the Safavids until their leader, Hasan Beg, converted from Yezidism to Islam and switched sides to the Ottomans following the Ottoman attack on Azerbaijan ( Modern day Iranian Azerbaijan) in 1554 during the Safavid Campaign (1554–55). Their chief, Sarı Süleyman Bey, strengthened the Hoşap Castle in the Lake Van region, in 1643. They bordered the Safavids, and were often raided by them. See also *Kurdish tribes Kurdish tribes are tribes of Kurds, Kurdish people, an ethnic group from the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan in West Asia, Western Asia. The tribes are socio-political and generally also a territorial unit based on descent and kinship, real or ... References Sources *{{cite book, author=University of Wisconsin, title=International Journal of Turkish Studies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
