Van, Turkey

Ruins at the location of old city of Van.

Van (Armenian Վան) is a city in eastern Turkey and the seat of Van Province. It is on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city's population in 2005 was 284,464. According to the Encyclopedia of the Orient, Kurds form the majority though no census based on ethnicity was ever held in Turkey.

Van, Turkey Media

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  City of Van (view from Van Kalesi)

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  Ruins of the old city of Van, photographed from Van Fortress, Turkey.

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  An Urartian cauldron at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

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  Inscription of Xerxes the Great on the cliffs below Van castle

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  Urartumta

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  Map of the Caucasus, 740 CE

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  Flag of the Safavid Dynasty from 1576[1] to 1666[2][3]

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  Flag of Ottoman Empire (1517-1793)

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  Flag of Armenia (1918–1922)

Other websites

• Plan of Van city as it was before 1915