Ahlat

Ahlat is a memorable town and area in Turkey's Bitlis Province in Eastern Anatolia Region. From 1929-1936, it had been incorporated as a region of Van Province. The town of Ahlat is arranged on the northwestern shore of Lake Van. The leader is Abdulalim Mümtaz Coban. Ahlat, known by its Armenian name of Khlat in the old and medieval period, was before a piece of the region of Bznunik'. During the mid 8^th century, Arab clans settled in the locale, which lay on the wilderness with Byzantium, and it turned out to be a piece of the Arab Kaysite principality. Ibn Hawqal made reference to it as an essential stopover point on the Urmia-Mayyafariqin exchange course. Amid the following four centuries, Ahlat was managed by "Bedouin governors, Armenian sovereigns, and Arab emirs of the Qays tribe".

In the winter of 998, the Curopalates David III of Tao attacked Khlat yet was not able catch it, mostly in light of his derisive treatment towards its Armenian populace. After the Battle of Manzikert, the Seljuk armed force, drove by and by Sultan Alp Arslan, claimed the town. The Seljuks at that point gave authority over the town to the Turkmen slave administrator Sokmen el-Kutbl. Sokmen, and the Turkmen leaders of Ahlat that succeeded him, were known as the Shah-Armens. The Shah-Armens were focused on the northwestern shores of the Lake Van.