Bulanik

Bulanik, formerly Gop or Kop, is a metropolis and district of Mus Province within the Eastern Anatolia location of Turkey. In the 19th century Bulanik became the name of the kaza. Its capital, brand new Bulanık city, become referred to as Gop, also rendered as Kop. At the give up of the 19th century Gop turned into described as a big village with approximately 400 homes, all but 50 of them inhabited by using Armenians.

Although the soil turned into amongst the maximum fertile in the location, the population were nearly destitute due to the location's lack of confidence and the impossibility of exporting their crops. Two miles south of the village changed into an Armenian monastery named Surb Daniel which contained the relics of a saint of that call. The district become previously known as Hark' and changed into a part of Historical Armenia's Turuberan province. The earliest report of Kop is found in the 995 encyclical from Vandir monastery underneath the call Koghb, which changed into later distorted.

Bulanik approach "blurred" in Turkish that's a cite for Murat River. After the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, Turkmen tribes settled in Bulanik. Today, Kurds are most of the people. Before the Armenian genocide, there was an Armenian majority, which changed into later replaced with the aid of Turks further to nearby Turkmens, Bulanik took a number of Turkic emigrants along with Meskhetians and Qarapapaq Turks. These Muhacirs' first came with Russo-Turkish War and persevered to return all through Republic era.