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    Varto (Kurdish: Gimgim; Armenian: Վարդօ or Վարդո, Varto) is a town in Muş Province, Turkey. It is the seat of Varto District. Its population is 10,914...
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  • Toklu (Kurdish: Mamakhig) is a hamlet of the village Yurttutan in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Alparslan 1 Dam was built near this...
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    Varto District (Armenian: Վարդոյի գաւառակ) is a district of the Muş Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Varto. Its area is 1,318 km2, and its...
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  • village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Its population is 427 (2022). It is 91 km from Muş province and 43 km from Varto town. Yurttutan...
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  • Juha Varto (born 27 June 1949) is a Finnish philosopher, considered the most important phenomenologist in Finland, known also for his prolific output...
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  • village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Its population is 48 (2022). It is 74 km from Muş city center and 14 km from Varto town. Yarlısu...
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  • Kayalıkale is a village in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. Its population is 314 (2022). The Kurdish name of the village is Hınzora...
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    Varto Terian (Persian: وارتو طریان; May 11, 1896 – October 2, 1974) also known by the pseudonym LaLa, was an Iranian-born Armenian actress and educator...
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    Between 1901 and 1905, Chechen refugees settled in the Kurdish towns of Varto and Bulanık since other ethnic groups like Circassians had already settled...
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  • in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. As of 2022, it had a population of 314 people. It is located 48 km (30 mi) from Varto and 96 km...
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  • (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Alexandros; is a village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Its population is 71 (2022). Ünaldı...
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  • Boyalı is a village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Its population is 154 (2022). Boyalı and the plateau used for animal husbandry...
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  • Kaygıntaş is a village in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. Its population is 238 (2022). Kaygıntaş and the plateau used for animal...
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  • Kayalıdere is a village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Its population is 89 (2022). The old name of the village is Aşağı Hınzor...
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  • The 1966 Varto earthquake occurred on 19 August with a moment magnitude of 6.8 a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 2,394 were killed...
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  • Erdoğan is a village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Its population is 299 (2022). The village is located south of the small Akdoğan...
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  • Karapınar is a village in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. Its population is 261 (2022). There are Akdoğan Lakes in the east of...
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  • Akçatepe is a village in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. As of 2022, it had a population of 272 people. The old name of the village...
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    the Ottoman Army and chairman of the Azadî organization. He was born in Varto in the Bitlis vilayet in 1882. His father Mahmud Bey was the chieftain (ağa)...
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  • well as falsifying Kurdish history and origins. Şerif Fırat's "History of Varto and the Provinces of the East", became a very popular book. Fırat was a...
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  • Başkent is a village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. It is 74 km from Muş center and 14 km from Varto town. Its population is 207...
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    Party and the President of Turkey. Fidan was born to a Kurdish father from Varto and a Turkish mother from Denizli. He belongs to the Kurdish Hesenan tribe...
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    Caucasian population, Caucasians of Kurdistan included Chechens and Ingushes in Varto, Ossetians in Ahlat and Circassians. From early stage on, these Caucasians...
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    originates from the Bingöl Mountains in the west of Hınıs and north of Varto. It consists of a combination of more than 20 streams coming from the valleys...
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  • Kayadelen is a village in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. Its population is 38 (2022). There is Kayadelen karstic cave in the village...
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    (Yayladere), Erzincan (Tercan), Erzurum (Hınıs, Tekman), Gümüşhane (Kelkit), Muş (Varto), and Tunceli (Pülümür, Nazımiye, Çemişgezek). The part of the Lolan tribe...
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  • Haksever is a village in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. Its population is 876 (2022). Haksever and the plateau used for animal...
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  • The 1946 Varto–Hınıs earthquake occurred at 05:12:46 local time on 31 May. The earthquake had an estimated moment magnitude of 5.9 and a maximum felt...
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  • Derince is a village in the Varto District, Muş Province, in east Turkey. Its population is 124 (2022). Derince and the plateau used for animal husbandry...
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  • Yeşilpınar is a village in the Varto District of the Muş Province in east Turkey. As of 2022, it had a population of 305 people. The old name of the village...
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