Van Bucağı

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Van Museum

Museum

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The Van Museum or Urartu Museum is a museum located in the city of Van in eastern Turkey. It showcases on 13,000 m2 a large archaeological and ethnographic record of human life and cultural development in the lake Van region from eastern Anatolia’s Stone Age to the present. Van Museum is situated 3½ km west of Van Bucağı.

Van Castle

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The Fortress of Van is a massive stone fortification built by the ancient kingdom of Urartu during the 9th to 7th centuries BC, and is the largest example of its kind. Van Castle is situated 4 km west of Van Bucağı.

Van railway station

Railway station

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Van railway station is the main railway station in Van, Turkey. Up until July 2015, the Trans-Asia Express, from Tehran, Iran, stopped at the station. The train would continue to the Van Pier, where passengers would travel to Tatvan via ferry, and the western half of the train would continue to Ankara.

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Van

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Van is a city in Eastern Anatolia in Turkey. It's on the eastern shore of Lake Van near the border with Iran, so for Iranians it's an unlikely Reno, a holiday break from their restrictive theocracy.

Tuşba

Town

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Tuşba is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,948 km2, and its population is 163,301. The district Tuşba was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district İpekyolu.

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