Hınıs

Hınıs lies on a fertile, undulating plain among the mountains north of Muş. Known in Armenian as Khnus, the district supported farming villages as well as the fortified town. It came under Ottoman rule during Süleyman's Persian campaign, and became a frontier sancak of Erzurum. A register of 1642 records the castle buildings in disrepair and grants them to officials on condition that they restore them; Armenian and Muslim taxpayers lived throughout the surrounding district.