Turkey
Van Province
Çatak İlçesi

Alacayar

Alacayar is a village in , and has about 1,310 residents and an elevation of 1,692 metres. Alacayar is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near the hamlet .
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  • Type: Village with 1,310 residents
  • Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Çatak, Van, eastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Berho” and “Berxo Paxki”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Çatak.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,952 km2, and its population is 18,462. Its inhabitants are Kurds. As mayor Abdürrahman Şeylan from the Justice and Development Party was elected in the local elections in March 2019, Sercan Sakarya is the current Kaymakam, installed in August 2022. is situated 9 km west of Alacayar.

Alacayar

Latitude
38.02878° or 38° 1′ 44″ north
Longitude
43.15476° or 43° 9′ 17″ east
Population
1,310
Elevation
1,692 metres (5,551 feet)
Open location code
8HC525H3+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2517613249
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
324293
Wiki­data ID
Q10731626
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yoruba—“Alacayar” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Alacayar”
  • Catalan: “Alacayar”
  • Cebuano: “Alacayar”
  • Chechen: “Аладжайар”
  • Czech: “Alacayar”
  • Danish: “Alacayar”
  • Dutch: “Alacayar”
  • Finnish: “Alacayar”
  • French: “Alacayar”
  • German: “Alacayar”
  • Indonesian: “Alacayar”
  • Irish: “Alacayar”
  • Italian: “Alacayar”
  • Kurdish: “Berxo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alacayar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alacayar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alacayar”
  • Polish: “Alacayar”
  • Portuguese: “Alacayar”
  • Romanian: “Alacayar”
  • Slovak: “Alacayar”
  • Slovenian: “Alacayar”
  • Spanish: “Alacayar”
  • Swedish: “Alacayar”
  • Tagalog: “Alacayar”
  • Tatar: “Алаҗаяр”
  • Turkish: “Alacayar, çatak”
  • Turkish: “Alacayar, Çatak”
  • Turkish: “Alacayar”
  • Vietnamese: “Alacayar, Çatak”
  • Vietnamese: “Alacayar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alacayar”
  • Yoruba: “Alacayar”
  • “Alacayar”

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