Hanak is a district of
Ardahan ProvinceArdahan Province is a province in the far north-east of Turkey, at the very end of the country, where Turkey borders with Georgia .The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan.- Etymology :...
of
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, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
on the road from
ArdahanArdahan is a city in northeastern Turkey on the Georgian border..-Life in Ardahan:...
to
PosofPosof is a district of Ardahan Province of Turkey, in the far east of the country, on the border with Georgia, 75 km from the city of Ardahan.Formerly named "Postkhovi" under Georgian rule, and later as "Duğur".-Geography:...
.
Hanak sits in the valley of the Hanak River with high mountains on all sides, Ilgar to the north being the highest at 2915m. The weather, like all districts of Ardahan, is very, very cold and dry especially on the mountainsides where the cold weather begins in September, the snow will not melt until May, avalanches are common and the road to Posof is frequently closed.
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Hanak is a district of
Ardahan ProvinceArdahan Province is a province in the far north-east of Turkey, at the very end of the country, where Turkey borders with Georgia .The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan.- Etymology :...
of
TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
on the road from
ArdahanArdahan is a city in northeastern Turkey on the Georgian border..-Life in Ardahan:...
to
PosofPosof is a district of Ardahan Province of Turkey, in the far east of the country, on the border with Georgia, 75 km from the city of Ardahan.Formerly named "Postkhovi" under Georgian rule, and later as "Duğur".-Geography:...
.
Hanak sits in the valley of the Hanak River with high mountains on all sides, Ilgar to the north being the highest at 2915m. The weather, like all districts of Ardahan, is very, very cold and dry especially on the mountainsides where the cold weather begins in September, the snow will not melt until May, avalanches are common and the road to Posof is frequently closed. In summers it rains.
Until the 18th century these mountains were covered in forest, but now they are bare hillsides apart from one or two patches of pine forest. The local economy depends on grazing cattle.
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Ardahan ProvinceArdahan Province is a province in the far north-east of Turkey, at the very end of the country, where Turkey borders with Georgia .The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan.- Etymology :...
for the history of this area, including Hanak, long settled by the Kipchak branch of the
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Turks, apart from brief periods of occupation by
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in the late 19th and early 20th century.