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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.
Nothing brings Turkey’s cultural alchemy to life like the Unesco-listed ancient city Ani, an hour's drive east of Kars on the border with Armenia. Stretched across 250 hectares, the site has ...
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. Between 961 and 1045, it was the capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom that covered much of present-day Armenia and eastern ...
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 .
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 ...
Kozluca (Armenian: Ղոզլուջա) is a village in the Kars District of Kars Province, Turkey. [1] Its population is 102 (2023). [2]The village houses the remains of the Armenian Bagnayr Monastery, built in the 10th century CE.