For the first time, communities began to live in Van in 7000 BC. During the Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron ages, small communities lived in Van and its surroundings. The Assyrians established Van as a city.
Hurris lived in Van. But then Van started to be directed by the Urartians. Van is the capital of the Urartian kingdom. But after the collapse of the Urartian state, Van was conquered by Meds.
In the following years Van was conquered many times by other states. The nations conquering Van are the Persians, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids, the Armenians, the Parthians, the Romans, the Sassanids and the Byzantines and the Arabs.
The city of Van was taken back from the Arabs by the Byzantines. After the 11th century, Turks began to settle in Van and its surroundings. And Van was conquered by the Seljuk state. Thereafter, Van changed hands several times between Turks and Iranians.
Van was finally conquered by the Ottoman Empire. And after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Van, was beenan important city of the Republic of Turkey.
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