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Varto (Kurdish: Gimgim,[2] Armenian: Վարդօ or ՎԱՐԴՈ,Varto[3]) is a town in Muş Province, Turkey. It is the seat of Varto District.[4] Its population

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History[edit] Some 5,200 Armenians were living in the district of Varto in 1914, including 600 in the town of Varto. Eight churches, 3 monasteries and 5 schools tended to their to spiritual needs.[5] In June 1915 during the Armenian genocide, a great number of Varto's Armenians were massacred in the valley of Newala Ask.[6] It was the epicenter of the 1966 earthquake that killed nearly 3,000 people. There are about a hundred villages in the Varto district.