Bahçesaray (Van)
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 Central mosque in Bahcesaray |
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Van | |||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 8 ' N , 42 ° 48' E | |||
| Height : | 1870 m | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 432 | |||
| Postal code : | 65 710 | |||
| License plate : | 65 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2012) | ||||
| Structure : | 20 meals | |||
| Mayor : | Onur SATIROGLU ( ACP ) | |||
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| Bahçesaray county | ||||
| Residents : | 14,758 (2017) | |||
| Surface: | 426 km² | |||
| Population density : | 35 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Onur Şatiroğlu | |||
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Bahçesaray ( Turkish for "garden palace" , formerly Müküs , Armenian Մոկս Moks , Kurdish Mikis or Miks ) is a former district in the eastern Anatolian city of Van with the rank of a municipality ( Belediye ). Bahçesaray is located in the southwest of the province and borders the provinces of Bitlis and Siirt . The community consists of 20 districts ( Mahalle ) that were villages ( Köy ) before the administrative reform .
The Kurdish and the earlier Turkish place name are a variant of the originally Armenian name.
About five kilometers southeast of the municipality are the ruins of the Armenian monastery Tzpativank , in Turkish Beyaz Kilise , which was founded in the 10th century. This included a Church of the Redeemer, an elongated hall church with a semicircular apse, a square Gawit in front of it and an Anabaptist chapel attached to its south wall.
The former Armenian monastery Aparank ("palace"), which was also founded in the 10th century, is located in a remote mountain region southwest of Bahçesaray . The sacred building complex consisted of the Anabaptist Church, chapels built on both sides and a Gawit in the west.
In February 2020 an avalanche accident occurred near Bahçesaray .
Personalities
- Feqiyê Teyran , Kurdish poet
- Han Mahmud , Kurdish prince
- Sinan Çetin , film director, producer and actor
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nufusu.com , accessed November 11, 2018
- ↑ Sevan Nişanyan : Adini unutan Ülke. Türkiye'de Adı Değiştirilen Yerler Sözlüğü. Istanbul 2010, p. 336
- ^ Thomas Alexander Sinclair: Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey. Volume 1, The Pindar Press, London 1989, pp. 234f, ISBN 0-907132-34-0
- ↑ Thomas Alexander Sinclair, p. 238
