Side vs Van

Side

name
  • Its ruins, located beside the village of Selimiye in Turkey's Antalya province. 

  • An ancient city on a small peninsula on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia, settled by Greeks from Cyme. 

Van

name
  • A large saline tectonic lake of the Armenian Highland in eastern Turkey lakes, famous for its Chalcalburnus tarichi (syn. Alburnus tarichi) fish and the 10th century Armenian cathedral on Akhtamar Island. 

  • A diminutive of the male given names Vance, Ivan, or Evan. 

  • A diminutive of the female given name Vanessa. 

  • A city on the shore of that lake. 

noun
  • A Van cat. 

  • A Turkish Van cat. 

How often have the words Side and Van occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )