Van demographics
Every documented census and post-Soviet observation, on a single shared timeline. Hover any chart point or population bar for the source-by-source breakdown.
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- Armenian
- Kurdish
- Ottoman Turkish
All observations · 4 rows
| Year | Group | Share | Population | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Armenian | 50% | 30,000 | The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History | Pre-WWI Van, a city of approximately 60,000 split roughly between Armenian and Muslim quarters. |
| 1914 | Kurdish | 30% | — | The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History | |
| 1914 | Ottoman Turkish | 18% | — | The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History | |
| 1916 | Armenian | — | 0 | Armenian Van/Vaspurakan | After the 1915 [[event:van-resistance-1915|Armenian self-defence of Van]] and the subsequent retreat with the Russian army into the Caucasus, the Armenian population of Van was zero. The Ottoman quarter was rebuilt in the 1920s in a different location. |