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Municipality in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey
Kars (Armenian: Կարս, less commonly known as Ղարս Ghars, Kurdish: Qers) is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. Its population 73,836 as of 2011. The town appears as located in the ancient region known as Chorzene, (in greek Χορζηνή) in classical historiography (Strabo) as part of Roman Armenia. The name "Kars" may be derived from the Armenian word հարս (hars), meaning "bride", or rather from կառուց բերդ (kaṛuts berd), "Kaṛuts Fortress".. One hypothesis has it that the name derives from the Georgian word კარი (kari), meaning "the gate" as was the case for other border region strongholds. The Turkish etymology offered by M. Fahrettin Kırzıoğlu (that the name came from the "Karsak", a Turkish tribe), has been dismissed as unsustainable by scholars. As mayor of Kars Ayhan Bilgen from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected in 2019. The current Kaymakam is Nur Sevinç Özbek. .... Learn more at Wikipedia
Kars is served by a main highway from Erzurum, and lesser roads run north to Ardahan and south to Igdir. The town has an airport (Kars Harakani Airport), with daily direct flights to Ankara and Istanbul. Kars is served by a station on the Turkish Railways (TCDD) that links it to Erzurum. This line was originally laid when Kars was within the Russian Empire and connected the city to nearby Alexandropol and Tiflis, with a wartime, narrow-gauge extension running to Erzurum. Turkey's border crossings with Armenia, including the rail link, the Kars-Gyumri-Tbilisi railway, have regrettably been closed since April 1993. Turkey's border with Armenia was closed down after the Armenia occupied the Nagorno Karabakh region in Azerbaijan. (As of September 2018, Turkey maintains that the border will remain closed until Armenia). Construction on a new line, the Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway, intended to connect Turkey with Georgia and Azerbaijan, began in 2010. The line became operational on October 30, 2017. The line connects Kars to Akhalkalaki in Georgia, from where trains will continue to Tbilisi, and Baku in Azerbaijan.
| Name | Kars |
|---|---|
| Long Name | Kars, Turkey |
| Region | Kars |
| Country | Turkey |
| Map | Open Map |
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