Gevaş (; ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. 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.
The municipality is populated by Kurds.
History Historically, Gevaş was for some time the main town of the Armenian kingdom of Vaspurakan and later between the 14th and 15th centuries the centre of a small Kurdish emirate. In their time the settlement had moved nearer to the lake.
Main sights include surviving ruins of the castle, the monumental tomb known as Halime Hatun Kümbeti, built in 1358, very likely for the daughter of a local emir, a mosque built before 1446 (restoration in that year), the tomb of Sheikh Ibrahim, father of Halime Hatun as well as the ruins of an Armenian church in Ili, probably built after 941 and an Armenian Church/monastery on Kuş Island west of Aghtamar Island.
Composition There are 42 neighbourhoods in Gevaş District:Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
Abalı Akdamar Aladüz Altınsaç Anaköy Atalan Aydınocak Bağlama Bahçelievler Barışık Dağyöre Daldere Değirmitaş Dereağzı Dilmetaş Dokuzağaç Elmalı Göründü Gündoğan Güzelkonak Hasbey Hişet İkizler İnköy Karşıyaka Kayalar Kazanç Kızıltaş Koçak Kurultu Kuşluk Orta Pınarbaşı Selimiye Timar Töreli Uğurveren Uysal Yanıkçay Yemişlik Yoldöndü Yuva
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