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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 ]
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.
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.
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 .
The Battle of Kars [a] was the largest battle of the Turkish–Armenian War, which took place on October 30, 1920.It was fought between forces loyal to the Grand National Assembly under the command of Kâzım Karabekir and the army of the First Republic of Armenia.
Kars: 929–961 32 13 Ani: 961–1045 84 14 Tarsus: Armenian Principality of Cilicia 1080–1198 118 15 Sis: Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia: 1198–1375 177 16 Yerevan: Republic of Armenia (1918–1920) Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1991) Republic of Armenia (since 1991) 1918–present 107 16–17 Stepanakert: NKAO (1921–1991 ...
The Kars okrug [b] was a district of the Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1918. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently part of the Kars Province of Turkey and the Amasia District of Armenia.
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 ...