Ercis

Ercis is a metropolis and district located in the Van Province, Turkey on Lake Van. In Classical Antiquity, it become known as Arsissa, and as Arjish in Arabic and Western Armenian during the Middle Ages. The Byzantines knew it as Arzes and the tenth-century emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos statistics in his De administrando imperio that it became below the rule of the Kaysite emirate of Manzikert. The majority of the city's population is Kurdish. The overall populace of the district is a 145,229 and unfold most of the capital metropolis and villages. The rural population is 66,832, at the same time as the city populace is 78,397. Population density is 47/km². The population of the metropolis of Erciş is 77065 inhabitants.

This small district numerous times changed into the capital town of some ruling states. It became a chief middle of the province of Turuberan as part of the historic Kingdom of Armenia. The city modified arms on numerous activities among the Arabs and the Byzantines, within the early Middle Ages. In 1054, while underneath Byzantine administration, it become captured and sacked by using the Seljuk Turks after an eight-day siege. It was fortified inside the early 14th century by way of the Ilkhanid vizier Ali Shah. Ercis changed into a part of the Karakoyunlu country and later have become part of the Ottoman Empire. It became moved to a new place called Alada in 1841, because of floods.