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Kars (Armenian: Կարս or Ղարս; [2] Azerbaijani: Qars; Kurdish: Qers [3]) is a city in northeast Turkey.It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District. [4] As of 2022, its population was 91,450. [1]
Kars was the setting for the popular novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk. The Siege of Kars, 1855 is a book published by The Stationery Office, 2000, and is an account of its defence and capitulation as reported by one General Williams, one of many British officers lent to the Turkish army to lead garrisons and train regiments in the war against Russia.
The Kars oblast [b] was a province of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently in Turkey.The oblast bordered the Ottoman Empire to the west, the Batum Oblast (in 1883–1903 part of the Kutaisi Governorate) to the north, the Tiflis Governorate to the northeast, and the Erivan Governorate to the east.
Kars District (also: Merkez, meaning "central" in Turkish) is a district of the Kars Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city of Kars . [ 1 ] Its area is 2,048 km 2 , [ 2 ] and its population is 117,235 (2022).
The Kars Museum was opened in 1963 in the Cathedral of Kars (now the Kümbet Mosque) of Kars, Turkey. The structure was first built as an Armenian church ( The Holy Apostles Church ) under the Armenian Bagratuni dynasty by Abbas in 930–937.
The Treaty of Kars [a] was a treaty that established the borders between Turkey and the three Transcaucasian Soviet republics, which are now the independent republics of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. [3] [4] The treaty was signed in the city of Kars on 13 October 1921. [1] [2]
Kars is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method , a party-list proportional representation system.
The Eyalet of Kars [2] (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت قارص, romanized: Eyālet-i Ḳarṣ) [3] was an eyalet (province) of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 6,212 square miles (16,090 km 2 ).