title: Gevaş
text: Gevaş (, ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,544 km2, and its population is 26,918 (2022). In the last elections of March 2019, Murat Sezer from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected Mayor. As Kaymakam, Hamit Genç was appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoĝan in July 2019.
  
  The municipality is populated by Kurds.
  
  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. 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, a mosque built before 1446 (restoration in that year), the tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim, father of Halime Hatun 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.
  
  Composition
  There are 42 neighbourhoods in Gevaş District:
  
   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
  
   
  Populated places in Van Province
  Districts of Van Province
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
  Van vilayet
  Kurdish settlements in Turkey