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Guvencli Destination Guide

Discover Guvencli in Turkey

Guvencli in the region of Van is a town located in Turkey - some 565 mi or ( 909 km ) East of Ankara , the country's capital .

Interactive map of Guvencli

Local time in Guvencli is now 11:58 PM (Thursday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Istanbul " with a UTC offset of 2 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Mosul, Tabriz, Artashat, Van, and Tevekli. When in this area, you might want to check out Mosul . We found some clip posted online . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in Guvencli ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Kurdish Hosap Castle, Eastern Turkey

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www.TravelsWithSheila.com Dramatic Hosap Castle was built on a rock outcropping by Mahmudi Suleyman, a local Kurdish chieftain in 1643. Mahmudi controlled all the lands and villages in this area and r ..

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Interesting facts about this location

Adır Island

Adır Island or Lim Island (Armenian: Լիմ կղզի Lim kghzi), is an island in Lake Van.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 38.87 43.35 (Lat./Long.); Less than 15 km away
Tags: Islands of Lake Van

2011 Van earthquake

The Van earthquake was a destructive magnitude 7.1 Mw earthquake that struck eastern Turkey near the city of Van on Sunday, 23 October 2011 at 13.41 local time. It occurred at a shallow depth of 20 kilometres, causing heavy shaking across much of eastern Turkey and lighter tremors across neighboring parts of the South Caucasus and Levant. According to Disasters and Emergency Situations Directorate of Turkey AFAD on 30 October, the earthquake killed 604 and injured are 4,152.

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Located at 38.63 43.49 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Tags: 2011 earthquakes, 2011 in Georgia (country), 2011 in Iran, 2011 in Turkey, Earthquakes in Armenia, Earthquakes in Georgia (country), Earthquakes in Iran, Earthquakes in Turkey, History of Van Province

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Information of geographic nature is based on public data provided by geonames.org, CIA world facts book, Unesco, DBpedia and wikipedia. Weather is based on NOAA GFS.