Van
If you ever have the chance to visit the Eastern part of Turkey you must visit Van. It is a city situated in the Van Province and it hides an old, rich and complicated history. The place is known as the first largest city and the capital of the URARTU population since the first millennium BC, and also being the centre of of the Armenian Kingdom of Vaspurakan in the 9 th century BC. Armenians, Persians, Ottomans, Assyrians, Yezidis, Kurds and Gypsies – all of these ethnicities lived here together from time to time, fighting for autonomy. Van has often been called "The Pearl of the East" because of the beauty of its surrounding landscape. An old Armenian proverb in the same sense is "Van in this world, paradise in the next." This phrase has been slightly modified in Turkish as dünyada Van, ahirette iman or "Van for this world, faith for the next."(Wikipedia : Van- Turkey). There was a lot of war for power ...