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Gevaş (; ) is a municipality and
district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
of
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). ...
,
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, Armen ...
. Its area is 1,544 km2, and its population is 26,918 (2022). In the last elections of March 2019, Murat Sezer from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected Mayor. As
Kaymakam Kaymakam, also known by #Names, many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas. The title has been reta ...
, Hamit Genç was appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoĝan in July 2019. The municipality is populated by
Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...
.


History

Historically, Gevaş was for some time the main town of the Armenian kingdom of
Vaspurakan Vaspurakan (, Western Armenian pronunciation: ''Vasbouragan'') was the eighth province of the ancient kingdom of Armenia, which later became an independent kingdom during the Middle Ages, centered on Lake Van. Located in what is now southeaster ...
and later between the 14th and 15th centuries the centre of a small
Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish language ** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) **Central Kurdish (Sorani) **Southern Kurdish ** Laki Kurdish *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern ...
emirate. In their time the settlement had moved nearer to the lake. Later the town was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
. Before
World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
, 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, a mosque built before 1446 (restoration in that year), the tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim, father of Halime Hatun 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.


Composition

There are 42
neighbourhoods A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
in Gevaş District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
* 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

Populated places in Van Province Districts of Van Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey Van vilayet Kurdish settlements in Turkey {{Van-geo-stub