Tuşpa

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Tuşpa is a planned district and second level municipality in Van Province, Turkey. According to Law act no 6360, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750 000, will be a metropolitan municipality and the districts within the metropolitan municipalities will be second level municipalities. The law also creates new districts within the provinces in addition to present districts.[1] These changes will be effective by the local elections in 2014.

Thus after 2014 the present Van, Turkey central district will be split into two. A part will be named Tuşpa and the name Van will be reserved for the metropolitan municipality. (Tuşpa was the name of the Urartu kingdom of the Ancient ages which was situated in Van.)

Rural area

There will be 59 villages in the rural araea of Tuşpa district.After 2014 their status will "neighborhood of Tuşpa".

References

  1. ↑ Official gazette (Turkish)

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