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Kars Citadel

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Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
Kars Citadel
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Kaleici Mah. Kars Merkez, Kars Merkez, Kars, Turkey

Kars is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. With a population of 73,836 as of 2011, it is the largest city near the closed border with Armenia. For a brief period of time it served as the capital of the medieval Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia. Its significance increased in the 19th century, when the Ottoman and Russian empires contested the possession of the city, with the Russians gaining control as a result of the 1877-78 war. During World War I, the Ottomans took control of the city in 1918 and declared the Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus , but were forced to relinquish it to the First Republic of Armenia following the Armistice of Mudros . During the war in 1915, Turkish revolutionaries captured Kars for the last time. The controversialTreaty of Kars, signed in 1921 by the Government of the Grand National Assembly and by the Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, established the current north-eastern boundaries of Turkey.
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