Van (Turkey)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
ואן (טורקיה)
Name (Latin)
Van (Turkey)
Other forms of name
Wan (Turkey)
Urartu (Turkey)
Thostia (Turkey)
Coordinates
43.41666667 43.41666667 38.50194444 38.50194444 (gooearth )
E0432248 E0432248 N0382939 N0382939 (geonames )
Associated country
Turkey
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 316429846
Wikidata: Q83061
Library of congress: n 85194879
Sources of Information
  • BGN phone call, 8/21/85(Van, Turkey; variants: Urartu; Thostia; 38°30ʹN; 43°23ʹE; pop. pl.)
  • Büyük lûgat ve ansikl.(Van; capitol city of the prov. of Van; Eastern Anatolia; inhabited since neolithic times; famous as a city of the Kingdom of Urartu (1400-1200 BC) in whose inscriptions it was known as Tuşpa [no publs. in LC data base])
  • Çınar, H. Lîstikên zarokan yên Kurd, 2005:p. 91, etc. (Wan)
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 38°29ʹ39ʺN 043°22ʹ48ʺE)
  • BGN phone call, 8/21/85(Van, Turkey; variants: Urartu; Thostia; 38p0s 30ʹ N; 43p0s 23ʹ E; pop. pl.)
  • Büyük lûgat ve ansikl.(Van; capitol city of the prov. of Van; Eastern Anatolia; inhabited since neolithic times; famous as a city of the Kingdom of Urartu (1400-1200 BC) in whose inscriptions it was known as Tuşpa [no publs. in LC data base