Ağrı
Sign in to saveAğrı (; ) is a city in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. The city and its surrounding province are predominantly inhabited by Kurds and are widely identified in the scholarly literature as part of the Kurdish-populated regions of eastern Anatolia. It is the seat of Ağrı Province and Ağrı District. Its population is 120,390 (2021). It was formerly known as Karaköse. In the early Turkish republican period and until 1946, it was officially known as Karakilise. the city is now named after Ağrı, the Turkish name of Mount Ararat.
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Ağrı is a city in eastern Turkey near the Iranian border, serving as the administrative center of Ağrı Province and home to about 120,000 people in a predominantly Kurdish region. The city was renamed from its former name Karaköse to Ağrı (the Turkish name for Mount Ararat) and matters as a significant urban center in the Kurdish-populated areas of eastern Anatolia.
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- Locality
- Ağrı Merkez
- Region
- Ağrı
- Country
- Türkiye
- Population
- 124,483
- Timezone
- Europe/Istanbul
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Ağrı (; ) is a city in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. The city and its surrounding province are predominantly inhabited by Kurds and are widely identified in the scholarly literature as part of the Kurdish-populated regions of eastern Anatolia. It is the seat of Ağrı Province and Ağrı District. Its population is 120,390 (2021). It was formerly known as Karaköse. In the early Turkish republican period and until 1946, it was officially known as Karakilise. the city is now named after Ağrı, the Turkish name of Mount Ararat.
==History== Ağrı has old settlements such as Doğubeyazıt and Patnos, whose origins date back to the Middle Ages and the Islamic period. Over a long period of time, the region became part of the Urartians, the Achaemenid Empire, the Macedonian Empire founded by Alexander, the Seleucids, and the Armenian Kingdom, which recognized Persian and Roman domination for many years.