Ahlat

Ahlat (Armenian: Խլաթ, Khlat, Ottoman Turkish: اخلاط) is a historic town and a district in Turkey's Bitlis Province in Eastern Anatolia Region. The center town of Ahlat is situated on the northwestern coast of the Lake Van. She was the district in Van Province between 1929-1936. The mayor is Abdulalim Mümtaz Çoban (MHP). In the accounts of Nasir Khusraw the town of "Akhlat" is mentioned once: "And from there (Van) we arrived at akhlat in the 18th of Jumada al-awwal and this town marks the borders of Armenians and Muslims, ... an Emir ruled there which they called Nassr-ol-dolat and had many sons and had appointed them as district governors within his kingdom. In this town three languages are spoken: Taazi (Arabic), Persian, and Armenian...