Van vilayet

peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied Powers at the end of World War I

thumb|upright=1.3|alt=Refugees, some on foot and others riding cattle|Jilu (tribe)|Jilu Assyrians crossing the Asadabad Pass towards [[Baqubah, 1918]]

massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire which took place in the mid-1890s

Gevaş (; ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,544 km2, and its population is 26,918 (2022). In the last elections of March 2019, Murat Sezer from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected Mayor. As Kaymakam, Hamit Genç was appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoĝan in July 2019.

1915 siege

Ottoman province

occupation of Western Armenia by the Russian Empire during World War I

1897 Armenian fedayi raid against the Kurdish Mazrik tribe

act of self-defense by the Armenian population of Van against the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire