Halilağa
Halilağa is a suburb in İpekyolu, Van Province and has about 22,700 residents. Halilağa is situated nearby to the suburb Hafiziye, as well as near Hatuniye.- Type: Suburb with 22,700 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in İpekyolu, Van, eastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Halilağa Mah.”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Van Castle and Van Museum.
Van Castle
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 3 km west of Halilağa.
Van Museum
Museum
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 2½ km west of Halilağa.
Van railway station
Railway station
Photo: Babbsack, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Van railway station is situated 3 km north of Halilağa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tuşba and Van.
Tuşba
Town
Photo: Myararat83, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Van
Photo: Bahoz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Toprakkale
Locality
Photo: EvgenyGenkin, CC BY 2.5.
Rusahinili ", modern Toprakkale, is an ancient Urartian fortress built by Rusa I, located near the modern city of Van in eastern Turkey. The site has been excavated by archaeological teams from Germany, the United Kingdom, and other countries. Toprakkale is situated 3½ km northeast of Halilağa.
Halilağa
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: İpekyolu, Van Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.49814° or 38° 29′ 53″ northLongitude
43.37245° or 43° 22′ 21″ eastPopulation
22,700Open location code
8HC5F9XC+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 8596126048OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q109386589
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Turkish—“Halilağa” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “ХӀалилагӀа”
- Tatar: “Халилага”
- Turkish: “Halilağa, İpekyolu”
- Turkish: “Halilağa”
- “Halilağa”
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