Gevas

Gevas is a district of Van Province of Turkey. The mayor is Sinan Hakan. It is positioned at the south shore of Lake Van. Historically, Gevas became 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 agreement had moved nearer to the lake. Later the metropolis changed into included in the Ottoman Empire. Before World War I the district had a Muslim majority with a huge Christian Armenian minority.

Main sights encompass: a few surviving ruins of the citadel, the monumental tomb called Halime Hatun Kumbeti, build in 1358, verily probable for the daughter of a local emir. A mosque construct before 1446 and the tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim, father of Halime Hatun. The ruins of an Armenian church in Ili, probably constructed after 941 and an Armenian Church/monastery on Kusadasi island west of Akdamar Island. The pointed roof tomb of Halime Hatun, constructed in 1358.