Kars
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Kars is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District. As of 2022, its population was 91,450. Kars, in classical historiography, was in the ancient region known as Chor
Kars Panorama
Holy Apostles Church of Kars 001
The castle of Kars
Kars Muradiye Hamamı 5426
Bagratid Armenia
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Bagratid Armenia was an independent Armenian state established by Ashot I of the Bagratuni dynasty in the early 880s following nearly two centuries of foreign domination of Greater Armenia under Arab
Kars
…was in the ancient region known as Chorzene (Greek: Χορζηνή), part of the province of Ayrarat in the Kingdom of Armenia, and later the capital of the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia from 929 to 961. Currently, the mayor of Kars is Ötüken Senger. The city had an Armenian ethnic majority until it was recaptured by Turkish nationalist…
Bagratunis symbol
Relief carvings of Smbat and Gurgen Bagratuni at Sanahin
A statue of King Gagik I that originally had him holding a model of the Church of St. Gregory.
Royal enthronement scene from the frontispiece of a gospel commissioned by Gagik-Abas, ruler of Kars circa 1050.