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Kars is a province
Provinces of Turkey

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called iller in Turkish language .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....
  of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, located in the northeastern part of the country. It shares part of its border with the Republic of Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
. From 1878 until 1917 all of the present-day province of Kars was part of the Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n oblast of Kars
Kars Oblast

Kars Oblast was one of Transcaucasian Guberniya of Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was in the city of Kars, Turkey, presently in the Turkey....
. From 1918 to 1920 the province was under the administration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia
Democratic Republic of Armenia

The Democratic Republic of Armenia , 1918?1920, was the first modern establishment of an Armenian republic. The collapse of the Imperial Russia with the Russian Revolution of 1917 gave chance to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation to create the new republic which the leadership and the 103 of delegates from former Romanov realm belonged t...
 as the Vanand
Vanand

Vanand is the name used to describe the area of historic Armenia that roughly corresponds to the Kars Province of present-day Turkey. Named after the Armenian family of Vanandi, it was a principality of the Kingdom of Armenia and a later province of the Democratic Republic of Armenia....
 province (with the city of Kars as its capital). Its territory was ceded to Turkey by the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 in the Treaty of Kars
Treaty of Kars

The Treaty of Kars was a friendship treaty between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, which in 1923 declared the Republic of Turkey, and representatives of Soviet Armenia, Soviet Azerbaijan and Soviet Georgia with participation of Bolshevist Russia....
. The provinces of Ardahan
Ardahan 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 .The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan....
 and Igdir
Igdir Province

Igdir is a Provinces of Turkey in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan , and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars Province to the northwest and Agri Province to the west and south....
 were until the 1990s part of Kars Province.

province is divided into 8 districts
Districts of Turkey

The Provinces of Turkey of Turkey are divided into 957 districts . In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the qadaa....
 (ilçe), each named after the administrative center of the district:

There are 383 villages in Kars.

has a wealth of wildlife that is being documented by the Kars-Igdir Biodiversity Project.






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Kars is a province
Provinces of Turkey

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called iller in Turkish language .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....
  of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, located in the northeastern part of the country. It shares part of its border with the Republic of Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
. From 1878 until 1917 all of the present-day province of Kars was part of the Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n oblast of Kars
Kars Oblast

Kars Oblast was one of Transcaucasian Guberniya of Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was in the city of Kars, Turkey, presently in the Turkey....
. From 1918 to 1920 the province was under the administration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia
Democratic Republic of Armenia

The Democratic Republic of Armenia , 1918?1920, was the first modern establishment of an Armenian republic. The collapse of the Imperial Russia with the Russian Revolution of 1917 gave chance to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation to create the new republic which the leadership and the 103 of delegates from former Romanov realm belonged t...
 as the Vanand
Vanand

Vanand is the name used to describe the area of historic Armenia that roughly corresponds to the Kars Province of present-day Turkey. Named after the Armenian family of Vanandi, it was a principality of the Kingdom of Armenia and a later province of the Democratic Republic of Armenia....
 province (with the city of Kars as its capital). Its territory was ceded to Turkey by the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 in the Treaty of Kars
Treaty of Kars

The Treaty of Kars was a friendship treaty between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, which in 1923 declared the Republic of Turkey, and representatives of Soviet Armenia, Soviet Azerbaijan and Soviet Georgia with participation of Bolshevist Russia....
. The provinces of Ardahan
Ardahan 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 .The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan....
 and Igdir
Igdir Province

Igdir is a Provinces of Turkey in eastern Turkey, located along the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan , and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars Province to the northwest and Agri Province to the west and south....
 were until the 1990s part of Kars Province.

Districts

Kars province is divided into 8 districts
Districts of Turkey

The Provinces of Turkey of Turkey are divided into 957 districts . In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the qadaa....
 (ilçe), each named after the administrative center of the district:
  • Akyaka
  • Arpaçay
    Arpaçay

    Arpa?ay is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey. Its name was Zarusat until 1922....
  • Digor
    Digor, Kars

    Digor is a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey, and the name of the small town that is the district's administrative capital....
  • Kagizman
    Kagizman

    Kagizman is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey....
  • Kars
  • Sarikamis
    Sarikamis

    Sarikamis is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey.The town sits in a valley and is surrounded by mountains, many of which are covered with pine forests....
  • Selim
    Selim, Kars

    Selim is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey....
  • Susuz
    Susuz

    Susuz is a town and a district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey....


There are 383 villages in Kars.

Kars Nature and Wildlife

Kars has a wealth of wildlife that is being documented by the Kars-Igdir Biodiversity Project. The project has recorded 308 of Turkey's 465 bird species in the region. At least 191 of these occur at Kuyucuk Lake, that is the most important wetland in the province. Sarikamis Forests in the south harbor wolves, brown bear, lynx and other animals, and Aras (Araxes) River wetlands comprise a key stop-over site for many migrating birds. Aras River Bird Research and Education Center at Yukari Ciyrikli village has recorded 204 bird species at this single location alone.

Monuments

Kars contains numerous monuments, the most notable being the ruined city of Ani
Ani

Ani is a ruined and uninhabited medieval city-site situated in the Turkey province of Kars Province, beside the border with Armenia. It was once the capital of a medieval Armenian people Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia that covered much of present day Armenia and eastern Turkey....
 and the 9th century Church of the Apostles.

Trivia

Kars was also the setting for the popular novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk. 'The Siege of Kars, 1855' is a book published by The Stationery Office, 2000, and is an account of it's defence and capitulation as reported by one General Williams, one of many British officers lent to the Turkish army to lead garrisons and train regiments in the war against Russia.

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