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F r o m W i k i p e d i a , t h e f r e e e n c y c l o p e d i a
Town in Muş Province, Turkey
Municipality in Muş, Turkey
Location in Turkey
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Varto
Musa Ayyıldız
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Varto (Kurdish : Gimgim ,[2] Armenian : Վարդօ or ՎԱՐԴՈ Varto [3] Muş Province , Turkey. It is the seat of Varto District .[4] [1]
History [ edit ]
Some 5,200 Armenians were living in the district of Varto in 1914, including 600 in the town of Varto. Eight churches, 3 monasteries and 5 schools tended to their to spiritual needs.[5] Armenian genocide , a great number of Varto's Armenians were massacred in the valley of Newala Ask.[6]
It was the epicenter of the 1966 earthquake that killed nearly 3,000 people.
There are about a hundred villages in the Varto district.[7]
Geology and geomorphology [ edit ]
Varto District is surrounded by Bingöl Mountains from the north and Şerafettin Mountains from the south.[8] Akdoğan Lakes are located in the east of the district center.[9] Akdoğan and Şerafettin mountains.[10]
Tourism [ edit ]
The touristic places in Varto are Lake Akdoğan , Künav Cave ,[11] Bingöl Mountains , Kayalıdere Castle .
Demographics [ edit ]
Before the Ottoman rule, region was almost exclusively Armenian. It then became ethnically and religiously diverse.[3] Vital Cuinet reported a population of 16,994: 9,000 Muslims and 7,994 Armenians.[3] muhacir . The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople counted, on the eve of the First World War, 4,649 Armenians in the whole kaza , with seven churches, three monasteries, and four schools.[3]
According to the 1927 Turkish census , all 9,822 inhabitants of the Varto District were Muslims.[12]
Kurdish
Circassian
Other
1
8,774
2
314
Politics [ edit ]
Musa Ayyıldız started to work as the Deputy Mayor on March 9, 2023 after the Presidential Decree. [13]
References [ edit ]
^ Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Kurdish and Turkish). p. 56.
^ a b c d "Kaza Vardo - Վարդո / Varto" . Virtual Genocide Memorial . Retrieved 2023-09-17 .
^ İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
^ de Bellaigue, Christopher (2010). Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town 85 ISBN 9781594202520
^ Thomas, De Waal (2015). Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocid . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 243.
^ "Köyler" . varto.gov.tr . Retrieved 2020-05-18 .
^ "Determination Of Tectonic Activity In The Varto Basin (Muş) With Geomorphic Indices" (PDF) (in Turkish). Bingöl University . March 2019. p. 1.
^ "Göller" . mus.ktb.gov.tr . Muş İl Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü. p. 1.
^ "Muş Varto ilçesinin jeotermal potansiyelinin tespiti, termal otel ve sağlık merkezi fizibilite raporu" (PDF) (in Turkish). Doğu Anadolu kalınma ajansı. 2020. p. 28.
^ "Gezilecek yerler" . Kültür Portalı (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-11-23 .
^ a b Van Gölü Havzası Sempozyumu Bitlis İli (Turkey) İstanbul Üniversitesi Avrasya Arkeoloji Enstitüsü. Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Atatürk Üniversitesi ÇEKÜL. Ii. Van Gölü Havzası Sempozyumu. 1. Basım ed. Van: Bitlis Valiliği İl Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü; 2007. p. 280
^ "Musa Ayyıldız" . varto.bel.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-11-03 .
Further reading [ edit ]
De Bellaigue, Christopher, Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples . London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
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