2) Van Ettan Lake. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Van Ettan Lake, Mich.: see Pine River....

3) Van, Lake. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A salt lake of eastern Turkey. It is the largest lake in the country....

4) Van. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., city (1990 pop. 153,525), capital of Van prov., E Turkey, near the eastern shore of Lake Van, at an altitude of 5,659 ft (1,725 m). It is the trade center for a...

5) Avon Lake. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Avon Lake, (a´van) (KEY) , city (1990 pop. 15,066), Lorain co., NE Ohio, on Lake Erie; inc. 1917. It is chiefly a residential suburb of the Cleveland-NE Ohio industrial...

6) Urartu. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Urartu, (oorar´too) (KEY) , ancient kingdom of Armenia, centered about Lake Van in present-day E Turkey. It was the biblical Ararat. Urartu flourished from the 13th...

7) Sylvan Lake. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Sylvan Lake (SIL-van), town (1990 pop. 1,884), Oakland co., SE Mich., suburb 3 mi/4.8 km SW of Pontiac, on E side of Sylvan L.; 42°37'N 83°19'W. Light mfg. Inc. 1921...

8) c. Urartu (Van). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...(See 1078-977), and at some point afterward the kingdom of Urartu was established around Lake Van, with its capital at Tushpa. 1 c. 850-584 THE KINGDOM OF URARTU...

9) f. The Neo-Assyrians and the Neo-Babylonians. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...by which time the Assyrians again ruled from the Tigris to the Mediterranean, and from Lake Van to the borders of Babylonia. Ashur-nasir-apli was the chief architect...

10) Cimmerians. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...were driven by the Scythians from their former home in Crimea and came to the region around Lake Van (in present-day E Turkey). Defeated (634 B.C.) by the Scythians,...