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Erzurum is notable for the small-scale production of objects crafted from Oltu stone: most are sold as souvenirs and include prayer beads, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, earrings and hairclips. For now, Erzurum is the ending point of the South Caucasus Pipeline, also called the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (BTE) pipeline.
The Kars emirate was a vassal of the Saltukids in Erzurum, whose forces were effective in opposing Georgian attempts at seizing Kars. Thus, it was only in 1206 that Zakare of the Zakarids–Mkhargrdzeli succeeded in capturing Kars, joining it to their fiefdom of Ani. [11]
The Kars emirate was a vassal of the Saltukids in Erzurum, whose forces were effective in opposing Georgian attempts at seizing Kars. Later on, in 1207, Georgian and Armenian forces commanded by David Soslan and brothers Ivane and Zakare Zakarian-Mkhargrzeli captured Kars after a long siege. It was a part of Zakarid Armenia, principality under ...
Kars – Erzurum Before 1917 Russian military ground Narrow gauge railway Resulayn – Şenyurt, önceki: Derbesiye 61 1917 Baghdad Railway Mamure – Meydan Ekbez 54 1917 Baghdad Railway Amanos Mountains Hudut – Çobanköy – Nusaybin 382 1917 Baghdad Railway Derbesiye – Mardin 24 1917 Baghdad Railway Karapınar – Durak 37 1918
Passengers would change to a narrow gauge train from Erzurum to Kars. The Narrow gauge line was replaced with standard gauge in 1957 and the broad gauge line was replaced in 1962. It is the terminus of the Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway, and the Baku–Tbilisi–Akhalkalaki–Kars railway.
At first, its headquarters was located at Erzurum, and moved to Sarıkamış, then Kars during the Turkish–Armenian War (which itself is usually referred to synecdochically as the Eastern Front of the Turkish War of Independence). The Eastern Front has its foundations in remnants of the XV Corps of the Ottoman Army.
The Erzurum Eyalet was one of the first Ottoman provinces to become a vilayet after an administrative reform in 1865, and by 1867 it had been reformed into the Erzurum Vilayet. [4] In 1875 it was divided in six vilayets: Erzurum, Van, Hakkari, Bitlis, Hozat (Dersim) and Kars-Çildir.
The Ankara–Kars railway (Turkish: Ankara-Kars demiryolu) is a major railway in Turkey. Stretching 1,446.1 km (898.6 mi) across, it is by far the longest railway line in the country. The railway begins in Ankara and travels east via Kırıkkale, Kayseri, Sivas, Erzincan and Erzurum, until Kars, in the far east of Turkey.