Bitlis District
Bitlis District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of Bitlis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Bitlis.Bitlis Province in Turkey. Its population is 502 (2021). It was formerly known as Papşin or Papşén.
Before the deportations and genocide of the village's Armenian inhabitants, Papşin/Babshen had a population of 325 individuals in 1909. Located to the village's west was Surp Harutyun church and to its East was a chapel named Lusabdugh Surp Sahak.