Yumurtatepe is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Bitlis District Bitlis District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of Bitlis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Bitlis.Bitlis Province Bitlis Province (; ; ) is a province of eastern Turkey, located to the west of Lake Van. It takes its name from the central city, Bitlis. Its area is 8,294 km2, and its population is 353,988 (2022). The province is considered part of Western ...

in Turkey. Its population is 502 (2021). It was formerly known as Papşin or Papşén. Before the deportations and genocide of the village's Armenian inhabitants, Papşin/Babshen had a population of 325 individuals in 1909. Located to the village's west was Surp Harutyun church and to its East was a chapel named Lusabdugh Surp Sahak.

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Villages in Bitlis District {{Bitlis-geo-stub