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| Region: | Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey |
| Area: | 9,587 (km²) |
| Total Population | 287,106 TUIK 2006 (est) |
| Licence plate code: | 36 |
| Area code: | 0474 |
| Governor Website | http://www.kars.gov.tr |
| Weather forecast | turkeyforecast.com/weather/kars |
Kars is a province (Turkish: il) of Turkey, located in the northeastern part of the country. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions ( bölge) which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941 Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Turkey is divided into 81 provinces called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i Turkish car number plates are License plates found on Turkish vehicles Turkey went from six (2+4 to seven digits (3+4 local phone numbers c Turkey is divided into 81 provinces called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches It shares part of its border with the Republic of Armenia. Armenia (Հայաստան transliterated: Hayastan,) officially the Republic of Armenia (Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն Hayastani From 1878 until 1917 all of the present-day province of Kars was part of the Russian oblast of Kars. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Kars Oblast (Карсская область Karsskaya Oblast) was one of Transcaucasian governorates of Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917 From 1918 to 1920 the province was under the administration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia as the Vanand province (with the city of Kars as its capital). The Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA; Armenian: Դեմոկրատական Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն Demokratakan Hayastani Hanrapetutyun For the modern town in Armavir Province Armenia see Vanand Armavir; for the village in Azerbaijan see Vənənd. Kars may refer to Kars Turkey Kars Province, Turkey Kars Oblast, Russian Empire Kars Province Its territory was ceded to Turkey by the Soviet Union in the Treaty of Kars. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Treaty of Kars (Kars Antlaşması Карсский договор / Karskiy dogovor) was a friendship treaty between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey The provinces of Ardahan and Iğdır were until the 1990s part of Kars Province. Ardahan Province is a province in the far north-east of Turkey, at the very end of the country where Turkey borders with Georgia and Armenia. Iğdır (Iğdır Îdir Իգդիր İğdır Игдир ایگدیر is a province in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan
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Districts
Kars province is divided into 8 districts (ilçe), each named after the administrative center of the district:
There are 383 villages in Kars. The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 923 Districts ( ilçeler; sing Akyaka is a district of Kars Province of Turkey, and the name of the small town that is the district's administrative capital For the river of Armenia and Turkey see Akhurian River; for the village in Azerbaijan see Arpaçay Azerbaijan. Digor ( Armenian: Տեկոր ( Latin transliteration: Tekor) is a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Kağızman ( Armenian: Կագհզւան ( Latin transliteration: Kaghzuan) is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Kars may refer to Kars Turkey Kars Province, Turkey Kars Oblast, Russian Empire Kars Province Sarıkamış ( Armenian: Սարիղամիշ Sarighamish) is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey Selim is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. For the town in Armenia see Tsamakasar. Susuz is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of
Armenian Monuments
Kars contains numerous Armenian monuments, the most notable being the the ruined city of Ani and the 9th century Church of the Apostles. History Armenian chroniclers such as Yeghishe and Ghazar Parpetsi first mentioned Ani in the 5th century AD While there have been recent government led efforts to preserve the province's more conspicuous Armenian structures, mostly for tourism purposes, there is telling evidence that suggests many of these monuments have been intentionally destroyed or severely damaged since the territory passed into Turkish hands. [1]
Trivia
Kars was also the setting for the popular novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk.
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References
- ^ "The Monastery of Khtzkonk. " http://www.virtualani.org/khtzkonk/index.htm
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