Its capital, today's Bulanık town, was called Gop, also rendered as Kop.

The earliest record of Kop is found in the 995 encyclical from Vandir monastery under the name Koghb, which was later distorted.

After the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, Turkmen tribes (such as Bayat, Eymür and Bayındır) settled in Bulanık.

An American consul, Consul Tyrell, visited the border region between Bulanık and Eleşkirt and made these observations in the beginning of the 20th century: There are only three or four Armenian villages in this [Bulanik] kaza [county], most of the settled inhabitants being Muhajirs of Turcoman origin.

In Alashgird, there are several large and thriving villages and many Armenians, but the number of these last was reduced during the massacres, and they say that the plain has not yet attained the pitch of prosperity which it enjoyed before those events.

[6] The touristic places in Bulanık are Lake Haçlı, Bilican Mountains and Esenlik Mosque.