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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.
The Church of St Gregory was built during Armenian rule in the 13th Century (Maryann Wright) Read more: ... The city of Kars – 30 minutes from the Sarikamiş slopes – is a good first stop to ...
He toured Tiflis, Kars, Yerevan, and Baku, disseminating Armenian music. [ 3 ] During this period he composed his first compositions, including «Սև աչերեն» (Of the Black Eyes, text by Avetik Isahakyan , «Մնաք բարով» (Good Bye, text by Hovhannes Hovhannisyan ) and choral arrangements of folk material.
The music of Armenia (Armenian: հայկական երաժշտություն haykakan yerazhshtut’yun) has its origins in the Armenian highlands, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, [1] [2] and is a long-standing musical tradition that encompasses diverse secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musical notation).
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 .
Jean-Rodolphe Kars (born 1947), French pianist "Kars 1" and "Kars 2 (Wounds of the Centuries)," two songs by Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan from his 2015 album Mockroot. Kars dog, a breed of livestock guardian dog from eastern Turkey; Kars, the primary antagonist from the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency