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Armenian church in Kars. Kars is a city in northeastern Turkey that was historically home to a significant Armenian population. [1] Before the Armenian Genocide, which took place during World War I, Kars was a thriving center of Armenian culture, with a large Armenian community living alongside Turks, Kurds, and other ethnic groups.
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 ]
Ani (Armenian: Անի; Ancient Greek: Ἄνιον, romanized: Ánion; [3] Latin: Abnicum [4] [5]) is a ruined medieval Armenian [6] city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia.
Armenian Cathedral of Kars at the end of the 19th century. Located in the city of Kars, the Holy Apostles Church completed construction in the 940s during Bagratid Armenia under the rule of Abas I. The Church was called the Holy Apostles Church due to the sculptures of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus located in the exterior of the Church.
Kars contains numerous monuments, the most notable being the ruined Armenian city of Ani and the 9th century Church of the Apostles. In popular culture Kars was the setting for the popular novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk .
In 1064, just after the capture of Ani by Alp Arslan (leader of the Seljuk Turks), the Armenian king of Kars, Gagik-Abas, paid homage to the victorious Turks so that they would not lay siege to his city. In 1065 Gagik-Abas ceded his kingdom to the Byzantine Empire, but soon after Kars was taken by the Seljuk Turks. [1]
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.
The structure was first built as an Armenian church (The Holy Apostles Church) under the Armenian Bagratuni dynasty by Abbas in 930–937. In 1579, it was converted to a mosque. Archaeological works from Kars and its surrounding region, as well as objects uncovered by the excavations of the medieval Armenian city of Ani were gathered here ...