Gevaş
Vostan • Ոստան
District and municipality
Gevaş tomb
Gevaş tomb
Map showing Gevaş District in Van Province
Map showing Gevaş District in Van Province
Gevaş is located in Turkey
Gevaş
Gevaş
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 38°17′52″N 43°06′20″E / 38.29778°N 43.10556°E / 38.29778; 43.10556
CountryTurkey
ProvinceVan
Government
 • MayorMurat Sezer (AKP)
Area
1,544 km2 (596 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
26,918
 • Density17/km2 (45/sq mi)
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)
Postal code
65700
Area code0432
Websitewww.gevas.bel.tr

Gevaş (Armenian: Ոստան, romanized: Vostan, lit. '[princely] court',[2] Kurdish: Westan[3]) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey.[4] Its area is 1,544 km2,[5] and its population is 26,918 (2022).[1] 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.[3]

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.[2] Later the town was incorporated in the Ottoman Empire. Before World War I, the district had a 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,[2] a mosque built before 1446 (restoration in that year), the tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim, father of Halime Hatun[2] as well as the ruins of an Armenian church in Ili, probably built after 941 and an Armenian Church/monastery on Kuşadası Island west of Aghtamar Island.[2]

Composition

There are 42 neighbourhoods in Gevaş District:[8]

  • 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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  1. 1 2 "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Sinclair, T.A. (1989). Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume I. Pindar Press. pp. 222–223. ISBN 9780907132325.
  3. 1 2 Mendeş, Hurşit Baran (2022). Ertoşîler (in Turkish). Doz. p. 342.
  4. ↑ Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  6. ↑ "Van Gevaş Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  7. ↑ "KAYMAKAMIMIZ". www.gevas.gov.tr. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  8. ↑ Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.


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