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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 ]
Songs and poems have been written about Ani and its past glory. "Tesnem Anin u nor mernem" (Տեսնեմ Անին ու նոր մեռնեմ, Let me see Ani before I die) is a famous poem by Hovhannes Shiraz. It was turned into a song by Turkish-Armenian composer Cenk Taşkan. [83] [84] Ara Gevorgyan's 1999 album of folk instrumental songs is ...
The Kagizman okrug [b] was a district of the Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire, existing between 1878 and 1918.Its capital was the town of Kagyzman (present-day Kağızman), presently in the Kars Province of Turkey.
Sarıkamış-Kars is a snow-capped alpine region in the far north-east of Turkey.Flying over two hours from Istanbul into tiny Kars airport, the dramatic landscape evolves as green turns white ...
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 .
Kağızman (Kurdish: Qaxizman), [2] [3] [4] formerly Kaghzvan (Armenian: Կաղզուան), [5] is a town in Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey.It is the seat of Kağızman District. [6]
After the Turkish–Armenian War of 1920, Shirakavan was abandoned and the Armenian population of the village moved to Eastern Armenia and settled in the newly-formed village of Yerazgavors. Later in 1921, the territory of Kars including Shirakavan, was officially handed over to the Turks by the Treaty of Kars. [2]