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Van, Turkey
Location in Turkey
Overview
Province	Van Province
Population	225,628 [] (2005)
Elevation	850 m
Coordinates	38°33′ N 43°37′ E
Area code	0432
Licence plate code	65
Mayor	Burhan Yenigün (Justice and Development Party)
Website	http://www.van.bel.tr/

Van (Armenian Վան) is a city in eastern Turkey and the seat of Van Province, and is located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city's population in 2005 was 284,464.^[1] According to the Encyclopedia of the Orient, Kurds form the majority though no census based on ethnicity was ever held in Turkey.^[2][3] Image File history File links Flag_of_Turkey. ... Image File history File links Shows the location of the province Van in Turkey File links The following pages link to this file: Van Province ... Provinces of Turkey are called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i). ... Shows the Location of the Province Van Van is a province in eastern Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... Turkey went from six (2+4) to seven digits (3+4) local phone numbers c. ... Turkish car number plates are license plates found on Turkish vehicles. ... The name Justice and Development Party is used by a number of political parties, including Justice and Development Party (Morocco) Justice and Development Party (Turkey) See also: List of political parties. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Shows the Location of the Province Van Van is a province in eastern Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. ... Provinces of Turkey are called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i). ... Lake Van from space, September 1996 Lake Van Landsat photo Lake Van (Turkish: Van Gölü, in Armenian: ÕŽÕ¡Õ¶Õ¡ Õ¬Õ«Õ³) is the largest lake in Turkey, located in the far east of the country. ... Languages Kurdish Religions Predominantly Sunni Muslim also some Shia, Yazidism, Yarsan, Judaism, Christianity Related ethnic groups other Iranian peoples (Talysh Baluch Gilak Bakhtiari Persians) The Kurds are an ethnic group who consider themselves to be indigenous to a region often referred to as Kurdistan, an area which includes adjacent parts...

History

A number of sources affirm that the Lake Van shelters a monster (Monster of Lake Van-Van Gölü Canavarı), and a 4-meter high statue has been erected to its honor.

Under the ancient name of Tushpa, Van was the capital of the Urartian kingdom in the 9th century BC. Its ancient inhabitants called themselves Nairi. The city was a major Armenian center. The area of Van became once more an important center during the reign of the Armenian king, Tigranes II, who founded the city of Tigranakert in the 1st century BC ^[4]. The region came under the control of the Medes in the early 7th century BC and later by Persians in mid 6th century BC. Image File history File links VanGölüCanavarı.jpg‎ Monster of Lake Van (source: www. ... Image File history File links VanGölüCanavarı.jpg‎ Monster of Lake Van (source: www. ... Lake Van from space, September 1996 Lake Van Landsat photo Lake Van (Turkish: Van Gölü, in Armenian: Վանա լիճ) is the largest lake in Turkey, located in the far east of the country. ... Statue of the Monster of Lake Van in the city of Van, Turkey A number of sources affirm that Lake Van shelters a monster -- the Monster of Lake Van-Van Gölü Canavarı, and a 4-meter high statue based on reported sightings has been erected to its honor in... Urartu at its greatest extent 743 BC Urartu (Biainili in Urartian) was an ancient kingdom in the mountainous plateau between Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus mountains, later known as the Armenian Highland, and it centered around Lake Van (present-day eastern Turkey). ... (10th century BC - 9th century BC - 8th century BC - other centuries) (900s BC - 890s BC - 880s BC - 870s BC - 860s BC - 850s BC - 840s BC - 830s BC - 820s BC - 810s BC - 800s BC - other decades) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events Kingdom of Kush (900 BC... Nairi may refer to one of the following. ... This article is about a king of Armenia in the first century B.C. For other historical figures with the same name (including other kings of Armenia) see Tigranes Coin of Tigranes II Tigranes the Great (ruled 95-56 BC) (also called Tigranes II and sometimes Tigranes I) was a... Tigranakert (also spelled Dikranagerd), now known as Dyarbekir, was founded by the Armenian Emperor Dikran the Great in the 1st century BC and after the fall of Julius Caesar. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 7th century BC started on January 1, 700 BC and ended on December 31, 601 BC. // Overview Events Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria who created the the first systematically collected library at Nineveh A 16th century depiction of the Hanging Gardens of... The Persians of Iran (officially named Persia by West until 1935 while still referred to as Persia by some) are an Iranian people who speak Persian (locally named Fârsi by native speakers) and often refer to themselves as ethnic Iranians as well. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 6th century BC started on January 1, 600 BC and ended on December 31, 501 BC. // Monument 1, an Olmec colossal head at La Venta The 5th and 6th centuries BC were a time of empires, but more importantly, a time...

The Van region was conquered by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, and after his death, became part of the Seleucid Empire. By early 2nd century BC it was part of the Kingdom of Armenia. The Persian Sassanids finally gained control of the area in the 4th century AD. Alexander the Great (Greek: ,[1] Megas Alexandros; July 356 BC–June 11, 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, king of Macedon (336–323 BC), was one of the most successful military commanders in history. ... Events Gregory the Illuminator withdraws from the world; his death occurs sometime in the next couple of years. ... The Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic successor state of Alexander the Greats dominion. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 2nd century BC started on January 1, 200 BC and ended on December 31, 101 BC. // Coin of Antiochus IV. Reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos. ... The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (sometimes referred to as Armenia Minor) was a state formed in the Middle Ages by Armenian refugees fleeing the Seljuk invasion of Armenia. ... Head of king Shapur II (Sasanian dynasty A.D. 4th century). ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ...

The Byzantine Empire briefly held the region from 628 to 640, after which it was invaded by the Muslim Arabs, who consolidated their conquests as the province of Ermeniye. Decline in Arab power eventually allowed local Armenian rulers to re-emerge, with the Artsruni dynasty soon becoming the most powerful. Initially dependent on the rulers of the Kingdom of Ani, they declared their independence in 908, founding the kingdom of Vaspurakan. The kingdom had no specific capital: the court would move as the king transferred his residence from place to place, such as Van city, Vostan, Aghtamar, etc. In 1021 the last king of Vaspurakan, John-Senekerim Artsruni, ceded his entire kingdom to the Byzantine empire, who established the Vaspurakan theme on the former Artsruni territories. Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent c. ... Artsruni (also transliterated as Ardzruni or Ardzrouni) was a region and also a ruling family in old Armenia c. ... For the abbreviation or acronym ANI, please see ANI. In Etruscan mythology, Ani was the sky god, perhaps equivalent to the Roman Janus. ... Vaspurakan was a province and then kingdom of Greater Armenia during the Middle Ages. ... Categories: Geography of Turkey | Anatolia | Turkey geography stubs ... Theme may refer to: Theme (music), the initial or primary melody Theme music, in film and television, a melody closely associated with the program Theme (literature), is the unifying subject of the story Theme (computer), a custom graphical appearance for certain software, similar to a skin Thema, in the Byzantine...

Incursions by the Seljuk Turks into Vaspurakan started in the 1050s. After their victory in 1071 at the battle of Manzikert the entire region fell under their control. After them, local Muslim rulers emerged, such as the Ahlatshahs and the Ayyubids (1207). For a 20 year period Van was captured by the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate, until the 1240s when it was conquered by the Mongols. In the 14th century Van was captured by the Kara Koyunlu turks and later the Timurids. Seljuk (in Arabic SaljÅ«q; in Turkish Selçuk; also Seldjuk, Seldjuq, Seljuq) was the bey (chieftain) of a branch of Oghuz Turks known as the Seljuk Turks. ... Combatants Byzantine Empire Seljuk Turks Commanders Romanus IV #, Nikephoros Bryennios, Theodore Alyates, Andronikos Doukas Alp Arslan Strength ~ 40,000 [1] ~ 15,000 [2] Casualties ~ 8,000 [3] Unknown The Battle of Manzikert, or The Battle of Malazgirt, was fought between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turkish forces led by Alp... The Ayyubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Egypt, Iraq in the 12th and 13th centuries. ... The Sultanate of Rûm was a Seljuk sultanate in Anatolia from 1077 to 1307. ... The name Mongols (Mongolian: Mongol) specifies one or several ethnic groups. ... This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ... The Karakoyunlu or the Black Sheep Turkomans (Azeri-Turkish: Qaraqoyunlular/Karakoyunlular) were a Turkoman tribal federation that ruled what is today Azerbaijan, including present-day northwestern Iran and Iraq from 1375 to 1468. ... Timurids Map The Timurids were a Turkic-Mongol dynasty of Iran established by the Mongol Timur (Tamerlane). ...

The first half of the 15th century saw the Van region become a land of conflict as it was disputed by two Powers, namely the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Safavid Empire. The Safavids captured Van in 1502. The Ottomans took the city in 1515 and held it for a short period. The Safavids took it again in 1520 and Ottomans gained final and definite control of the city in 1548. They first made Van into a sanjak dependent on the Erzurum eyalet, and later into a separate Van eyalet in about 1570. (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... Motto دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1680, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299–1326) Bursa (1326–65) Edirne (1365–1453) Constantinople (Ä°stanbul, 1453–1922) Language(s) Ottoman Turkish Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 Osman I  - 1918–22 Mehmed VI... The Safavids were a long-lasting Turkic-speaking Iranian dynasty that ruled from 1501 to 1736 and first established Shiite Islam as Persias official religion. ... 1515 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... mary elline m. ... Events Mary I of Scotland sent to France Births September 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (died 1616) September 29 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1626) Francesco Andreini, Italian actor (died 1624) Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, astronomer, and occultist (burned at the stake) 1600 (died 1600) Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general... Sanjak and Sandjak (other variants: sinjaq, sanjaq) are the most common English transliterations of the Turkish word Sancak, which literally means banner. In Arabic the sanjaks were also called liwas. ... Erzurum (Ô¿Õ¡Ö€Õ«Õ¶ (Karin) in Armenian) is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. ... Vilâyet (also eyalet or pashaluk) was the Turkish name for the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. ... A van is a vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. ... Vilâyet (also eyalet or pashaluk) was the Turkish name for the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. ... Events January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis May 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. ...

The city's Armenian population was devastated during World War I by Ottoman troops as a part of the Armenian Genocide. According to Turkish accounts, with Russian forces approaching Lake Van, the regional administrator ordered the execution of five Armenian leaders and a revolt resulted in Van on April 20, 1915 against the Turks and in favor of the Russians. However, most historians agree that the Armenians, hoping to avoid slaughter, fled to the mountains of Van to defend themselves against the Turks^[5]. The anti-Turkish and pro-Russian sentiments were in the hopes of being rescued from Turkish massacres. The Russians finally captured Van in late May of 1915. This article is becoming very long. ... Armenian Genocide photo. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Anti-Turkism (Turkish: Türk Düşmanlığı), Turkophobia, Turcophobia or anti-Turkish sentiment is the hostility towards Turkish people, Turkish culture and the Republic of Turkey. ...

Ruins at the location of old city of Van.

Main article: Battle of Van

In August, a victory over the Russian army allowed the Ottoman army to advance back to Van. A brutal battle was fought resulting in the capture of the town by the Ottoman army and the deaths of thousands of Armenian defenders. Then in September of 1915 the Russians forced the Turks out of Van for the second time. Russian forces began to leave the area with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and by April 1918, it was recaptured by the Ottoman army. However, the end of World War I, forced the Ottoman army to surrender its claim to Van. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1300 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Van, Turkey ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1300 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Van, Turkey ... Background by April 1915, the Armenians had already donated their grains, their food, their warehouse supplies, money and men to the Ottoman war effort. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political and social upheavals in Russia, involving first the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy, and then the overthrow of the liberal and moderate-socialist Provisional Government, resulting in the establishment of Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ...

At the Treaty of Sèvres, the Entente Powers decided to cede the city to the Democratic Republic of Armenia. Turkish revolutionaries, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk rejected the terms of the treaty and instead waged the Turkish War of Independence. By 1920, Van fell under Turkish control again and its remaining Armenian inhabitants were expelled.^[5] With the Treaty of Lausanne and Treaty of Kars, Treaty of Sèvres was annulled, and Van remained officially under Turkish sovereignty. The Treaty of Sèvres is a peace treaty that the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire signed on 10 August 1920 after World War I. Representatives from the governments of the parties involved signed the treaty in Sèvres, France. ... Map of the World showing the participants in World War I. Those fighting on the Allies side (at one point or another) are depicted in green, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in gray. ... National motto: n/a Language Armenian (official) Capital Yerevan Independence From Imperial Russia, 1918 Currency Armenian dram National anthem Mer Hayrenik The Democratic Republic of Armenia (DRA; Armenian: Ô´Õ¥Õ´Õ¸Õ¯Ö€Õ¡Õ¿Õ¡Õ¯Õ¡Õ¶ Õ€Õ¡ÕµÕ¡Õ½Õ¿Õ¡Õ¶Õ« Õ€Õ¡Õ¶Ö€Õ¡ÕºÕ¥Õ¿Õ¸Ö‚Õ©ÕµÕ¸Ö‚Õ¶, Demokratakan Hayastani Hanrapetutyun; also known as the First Republic of Armenia), 1918–1922, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of... The people who master mind the Turkish National Movement: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Ismet Inonu Fevzi Cakmak Kazim Karabekir Ali Fuat Cebesoy ... Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – November 10, 1938) was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Borders as shaped by the treaty The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty that settle a part of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire that reflected the consequences of the Turkish Independence War between Allies of World War I and Turkish national movement, (Grand National Assembly... Soviet-Turkish border as per treaty The Treaty of Kars (Turkish: Kars AntlaÅŸması, Russian: Карсский договор) was a friendship treaty[1] between TBMM, (which was declared Turkey in 1923), and the Soviet Union by the representatives of Russian SFSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR. It was signed in Kars on...

By the end of the war, the town of Van was empty and in ruins. The new city was rebuilt after the war some distance away from the old city. Unfortunately, in the 1950s, the new city suffered from a devastating earthquake. ^[2]

Van today

The modern city is located on the plain extending from the Lake Van, at a distance of 5 kilometers from the lake shore. Lake Van from space, September 1996 Lake Van Landsat photo Lake Van (Turkish: Van Gölü, in Armenian: Վանա լիճ) is the largest lake in Turkey, located in the far east of the country. ...

It has often been called "The Pearl of the East" because of the beauty of its surrounding landscape. An old Armenian proverb in the same sense is "Van in this world, paradise in the next".^[6] This phrase has been slightly modified in Turkish as dünyada Van, ahirette iman or "Van for this world, faith for the next".

The city is home to Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi (Van 100th Year University) and recently came to headlines in Turkey for two highly publicized investigations initiated by the Prosecutor of Van, one of which was focused on accusations against the university rector, Prof. Yücel Aşkın, who was kept in custody for a time. Van Yüzüncü Yıl Ãœniversitesi (YYU) is a large university, run by the Turkish State, situated within an extensive campus, located on the outskirts of the city of Van. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ...

In culinary terms, as some cities in Turkey became renowned for their like kebap culture or else, Van has distinguished itself with its breakfast culture. Kebab (kabab in India/Pakistan, also spelled kebap, kebob, kabob) means grilled meat in Turkish. ...

The Van Kedisi (Van Cat) is a breed of cat native to this town and named after it. See also Turkish Van. The Turkish Van is a breed of cat that is supposedly derived from a type of cat that is still to be found in the Lake Van region of present-day Turkey. ...

Famous people from Van

• Bedros Kapamacıyan (Ottoman Armenian mayor of Van assassinated by a Tashnak team on 10 December 1912)
• Münip Boya (Turkish deputy in the Ottoman parliament between 1914-1918 and in the Turkish Grand National Assembly between 1923-1927)
• Ruhi Su (Turkish folk singer)
• Vankulu Mehmed Efendi (author of the first printed book in Turkish - a dictionary)

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Music and Folk Dance

• Van Papurisi(Papouri)
  • http://www.oezya.com/Sayfalar/Midiler/Anonim-VanPapurisi.mid
  • http://www.mantikweb.com/muzik/ankaabimq.mid
• Sehhane

Toycular,Edremit Nanayı, Nare, Nure, Hedili, Kirse, Kirsânî, Viro Barı, Şamran, Hoycan, Hırhır, Havasor, Şevko, Şerânî, Peyda, Dokuzlu, Meyroke, Papori, Tozi, Tozineke, Basso, Süleymânî, Üç ayak, Kaz Kaz, Lorke, Torimaman, Temi, Dingo.

References

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See also

• Caucasus Campaign

Combatants Ottoman Empire Russian Empire Democratic Republic of Armenia Commanders Enver Pasha Vehip Pasha Kerim Pasha Mustafa Kemal Kazım Karabekir Kress von Kressenstein Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov Nikolai Yudenich Andranik Ozanian Drastamat Kanayan Garegin Njdeh Movses Silikyan Lionel Dunsterville The Caucasus Campaign was fought from 1914 until 1918 in the...

External links

• Governorship of Van
• Municipality of Van
• Van 100th Year University
• Plan of Van city as it was before 1915

v • d • e Van, Turkey in Van Province (in the East Anatolia region) of Turkey
Urban districts	Van
Rural districts	Bahçesaray - Başkale - Çaldıran - Çatak - Edremit - Erciş - Gevaş - Gürpınar - Muradiye - Özalp - Saray
Regions	Provinces
Aegean	Afyonkarahisar - Aydın - Denizli - İzmir - Kütahya - Manisa - Muğla - Uşak
Black Sea	Amasya - Artvin - Bartın - Bayburt - Bolu - Çorum - Düzce - Giresun - Gümüşhane - Karabük - Kastamonu - Ordu - Rize - Samsun - Sinop - Tokat - Trabzon - Zonguldak
Central Anatolia	Aksaray - Ankara - Çankırı - Eskişehir - Karaman - Kayseri - Kırıkkale - Kırşehir - Konya - Nevşehir - Niğde - Sivas - Yozgat
East Anatolia	Ağrı - Ardahan -Bingöl - Bitlis - Elazığ - Erzincan - Erzurum - Hakkâri - Iğdır - Kars - Malatya - Muş - Siirt - Tunceli - Van
Marmara	Balıkesir - Bilecik - Bursa - Çanakkale - Edirne - Istanbul - Kırklareli - Kocaeli - Sakarya - Tekirdağ - Yalova
Mediterranean Sea	Adana - Antalya- Burdur - Hatay - Isparta - Kahramanmaraş - Mersin - Osmaniye
Southeastern Anatolia	Adıyaman - Batman - Diyarbakır - Gaziantep - Kilis - Mardin - Şanlıurfa - Şırnak

	Historic capitals of Armenia
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Location of Rize Province Rize is a province of Turkey and is located along the eastern part of the Black Sea coast. ... Shows the Location of the Province Samsun Samsun is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast with a population of 1,209,137 (2000). ... Shows the Location of the Province Sinop Sinop is a province of Turkey, along the Black Sea. ... Shows the Location of the Province Tokat Tokat is a province in northern Turkey. ... Location of Trabzon Province Trabzon is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. ... Shows the Location of the Province Zonguldak Zonguldak is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. ... Central Anatolia Region Central Anatolia Region (İç Anadolu Bölgesi) // Central Anatolia Region Aksaray Province Ankara Province Çankiri Province EskiÅŸehir Province Karaman Province Kayseri Province Kirikkale Province KırÅŸehir Province Konya Province NevÅŸehir Province NiÄŸde Province Sivas Province Yozgat Province Provinces of Turkey Category: ... Location of Aksaray Province Aksaray is a province in central Turkey. ... Shows the Location of the Province Ankara Ankara Province is a province located in central Turkey. ... Location of Çankırı Province Çankırı is a province of Turkey. ... shows the Location of the Province EskiÅŸehir EskiÅŸehir (literal meaning: old town) is a province in northwestern Turkey. ... Shows the Location of the Province Karaman Karaman is a province of central Turkey. ... The Kayseri Province, in central Turkey, is an area that has been linked with mythological stories as well as important figures in Turkish history. ... Location of Kırıkkale Province Kırıkkale is a recently created province of Turkey. ... Shows the Location of the Province KırÅŸehir KırÅŸehir Province is located in southern Turkey, forming part of the central Anatolian region. ... Shows the Location of the Province Konya Konya is a province of Turkey located in central Anatolia. ... Shows the Location of the Province NevÅŸehir NevÅŸehir is a province in central Turkey. ... Location of NiÄŸde Province NiÄŸde is a province in the Central Anatolian Region of Turkey. ... Shows the Location of the Province Sivas The province of Sivas is located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolian region of Turkey. ... Shows the Location of the Province Yozgat Yozgat is a province in central Turkey. ... East Anatolia Region East Anatolia Region (Turkish: DoÄŸu Anadolu Bölgesi) encompasses the eastern provinces of Turkey, and it is one of the 7 non-administrative sub-division used for census purposes. ... Location of Province AÄŸrı AÄŸrı (Armenian: Ô±Ö€Õ¡Ö€Õ¡Õ¿Õ«; Kurdish: Agirî [1]) is a province on the eastern borders of Turkey, bordering Iran to the east, Kars to the North, Erzurum to the Northeast, MuÅŸ and Bitlis to the Southeast, Van to the south, and IÄŸdır to the northeast. ... shows the Location of the Province Ardahan Ardahan is a province in the northwestern-most corner of Turkey, along part of the border with Georgia. ... Map showing the location of Bingöl Province Bingöl is a province of Turkey in Eastern Anatolia. ... shows the Location of the Province Bitlis Bitlis is a province of Turkey. ... Location of Elazığ Province Elazığ Province is a province of Turkey with its seat in the city of Elazığ. This province is also the source of the Euphrates river. ... Erzincan Province is a province on the Eastern region of Anatolia, and home to Erzincan, a city which was destroyed and rebuilt after a 7. ... shows the Location of the Province Erzurum Erzurum (or Erzerum, Arzen in antiquity, Karin in ancient Armenian, Theodosiupolis or Theodosiopolis during Byzantine rule) is one of the Provinces of Turkey, in the Eastern Anatolia Region, to the east of the country. ... Hakkâri is a province in the southeast corner of Turkey, located at the juncture of Iraq and Iran. ... shows the Location of the Province IÄŸdır Igdir is a province in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran. ... Kars is a province of Turkey, and is located in the northeastern part of the country, next to the border with Armenia. ... Malatya Province is a province in Anatolia (Turkey). ... Shows the Location of the Province MuÅŸ MuÅŸ (alternative transliteration: Mush) is a province in eastern Turkey. ... Location of Siirt Province Siirt is a province of Turkey, located in the southeast. ... Shows the Location of the Province Tunceli Tunceli is a province in eastern Turkey. ... Shows the Location of the Province Van Van is a province in eastern Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. ... Marmara Region Marmara Region, Turkey|Marmara Region (Marmara Bölgesi) // Marmara Region Balikesir Province Bilecik Province Bursa Province Çanakkale Province Edirne Province Ä°stanbul Province Kirklareli Province Kocaeli Province Sakarya Province TekirdaÄŸ Province Yalova Province Provinces of Turkey Category: ... shows the Location of the Province Balıkesir Balıkesir is a province in midwestern Turkey, having shorelines on both Marmara and the Aegean seas. ... Location of Bilecik Province Bilecik is a province in midwest Turkey, neighboring Bursa to the east, Kocaeli and Sakarya to the north, Bolu to the west, EskiÅŸehir to the southeast and Kütahya to the south, spanning an area of 4,307 km². Population is 175,500 (1990). ... shows the Location of the Bursa Province Bursa is a province in western Turkey, along the Sea of Marmara. ... shows the Location of the Province Canakkale Çanakkale is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. ... Location of Edirne Province Edirne is the westernmost province of Turkey, located in European Turkey (known in antiquity as Thrace) along the Greek border. ... Shows the Location of the Province İstanbul Istanbul Province is a province located in north-west Turkey. ... shows the Location of the Province Kırklareli Kırklareli is a province of northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. ... Kocaeli is a province of Turkey. ... Sakarya is a province of Turkey and is located in the Marmara region. ... Location of TekirdaÄŸ Province TekirdaÄŸ province in the northwestern part of Turkey (known in antiquity as Thrace) includes the city of TekirdaÄŸ and its surrounding area. ... Yalova is a province in northwestern Turkey, along the Sea of Marmora. ... Mediterranean Sea Region Mediterranean Region (Akdeniz Bölgesi), // Mediterranean Region Adana Province Antalya Province Burdur Province Hatay Province Isparta Province KahramanmaraÅŸ Province Mersin province Osmaniye Province Provinces of Turkey Category: ... Adana Province is a province with a surface area of 14. ... Antalya province is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean sea. ... Categories: Provinces of Turkey | Turkey geography stubs ... Hatay is a province of southern Turkey, situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and Syria to the south and east. ... Location of Isparta Province Isparta is a province in southwestern Turkey. ... Location of the Province KahramanmaraÅŸ KahramanmaraÅŸ (or simply MaraÅŸ) is a province of Turkey. ... Location of Mersin Province Mersin province is in southern Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Southeastern Anatolia Region Southeastern Anatolia Region (Turkish: GüneydoÄŸu Anadolu Bölgesi) // Southeastern Anatolia Region Adıyaman Province Batman Province Diyarbakır Province Gaziantep Province Kilis Province Mardin Province Åžanlıurfa Province Siirt Province Şırnak Province 2k Provinces of Turkey Categories: | ... Map showing the location of Adıyaman Province in the Kurdish region of Turkey Adıyaman is a province in south-central Turkey. ... Location of Batman Province Batman is a Turkish province in the predominantly Kurdish[1][2] southeast of Anatolia, with a population of slightly less than 500,000. ... shows the Location of the Province Diyarbakır Diyarbakır is a province in eastern Turkey. ... shows the Location of the Province Gaziantep Gaziantep(in kurdish: Dîlok) is a province in south-central Turkey, and is also the name of the provinces capital and largest city (population 853,513 as of 2000). ... Location of Kilis Province Kilis is a province of Turkey located in the southern central part of the country along the Syrian border. ... Map showing the location of Mardin Province of Turkey Mardin Province is a province of Turkey with a population of 835,173 (2000)[1]. The capital of the Mardin Province is Mardin. ... Shows the Location of the Province Åžanlıurfa Åžanlıurfa (also called simply, Urfa) is a province in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey. ... Şırnak is a Turkish province in the south east of Anatolia. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 492 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (500 × 609 pixel, file size: 42 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A golden medallion of a deity found in Armavir, Armenia. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 492 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (500 × 609 pixel, file size: 42 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A golden medallion of a deity found in Armavir, Armenia. ... For the abbreviation or acronym ANI, please see ANI. In Etruscan mythology, Ani was the sky god, perhaps equivalent to the Roman Janus. ... Armavir (Ô±Ö€Õ´Õ¡Õ¾Õ«Ö€ in Armenian) is a city located in southwestern Armenia. ... Yervandashat founded by King Orontes (Eruand) IV, the last of the Orontid dynasty as a new capital to replace Armavir which, according to Armenia’s “Father of History” Movses Kagankatvatsi, had been left dry by a shift of the Arax river. ... (Artaxata), city on Araks River in the Ararat valley, founded by Artashes in 166 BC. Strabo and Plutarch described it as a large and beautiful city, terming it as the Armenian Carthage. ... Tigranakert (also spelled Dikranagerd), now known as Dyarbekir, was founded by the Armenian Emperor Dikran the Great in the 1st century BC and after the fall of Julius Caesar. ... Echmiadzin or Ejmiatsin (Armenian: Ô·Õ»Õ´Õ«Õ¡Õ®Õ«Õ¶) is the holiest town in Armenia and the headquarters of the katholikos, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. ... Dvin (Armenian: ; Greek: ) — was a large commercial city, the capital of medieval Armenia, the ruins of which are located in the province of Ararat nearby a town by the same name. ... Bagaran (Armenian: ) was a town and fortress located 5 kilometers west of the right bank of the Akhurian river, formerly a capital of Armenia. ... Shirakavan (Armenian: , also spelled Shirakawan) also known by the name Yerazgavors was a medieval Armenian town that, during the 9th century AD, served as the capital for the Bagratid kingdom of Armenia. ... Kars (Armenian: Ô¿Õ¡Ö€Õ½) is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of the Kars Province, formerly at the head of a sanjak in the Turkish vilayet of Erzurum. ...