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Doğubayazıt
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thumb|250px|Ishak Pasha Palace near Doğubayazıt Doğubayazıt (; or , ) is a town in Ağrı Province of Turkey, near the border with Iran. Its elevation is 1625 m. It is the seat of Doğubayazıt District. Its population is 80,061 (2021). Also known as Kurdava, the town was the capital of the self-declared Republic of Ararat, a short-lived Kurdish state centered in the Ağrı Province. Demographic research has identified Doğubayazıt as a predominantly Kurdish-speaking city: a public health study by Bakiray Küçükkaya and Erbaydar (2012) noted that "the mother tongue of the majority of the populati
Doğubayazıt is a town of about 80,000 people in Turkey's Ağrı Province near the Iranian border, notable as the seat of its district and historically as the capital of the short-lived Republic of Ararat, a self-declared Kurdish state. The town, situated at an elevation of 1,625 meters, is predominantly Kurdish-speaking and is home to the nearby Ishak Pasha Palace.
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Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Doğubayazıt
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Doğubayazıt from İshak Paşa Palace.JPG
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Doğubayazıt from Ishak Pasha Palace
- Turkey place.province
- Ağrı
- Turkey place.district
- Doğubayazıt
- Turkey place.leader_party
- HDP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Yıldız Acar
- Turkey place.population_total
- 80061
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Doğubayazıt
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Erzurum vilayet
- Population
- 121263
- Elevation
- 1625
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Republic of Ararat
- Image
- Doğubayazıt from İshak Paşa Palace.JPG
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- Doğubayazıt
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- Category:Doğubayazıt
- native label
- Doğubayazıt
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- postal code
- 04×××
- urban population
- 80061
- rural population
- 38582
- name in kana
- バヤジト
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thumb|250px|Ishak Pasha Palace near Doğubayazıt Doğubayazıt (; or , ) is a town in Ağrı Province of Turkey, near the border with Iran. Its elevation is 1625 m. It is the seat of Doğubayazıt District. Its population is 80,061 (2021). Also known as Kurdava, the town was the capital of the self-declared Republic of Ararat, a short-lived Kurdish state centered in the Ağrı Province. Demographic research has identified Doğubayazıt as a predominantly Kurdish-speaking city: a public health study by Bakiray Küçükkaya and Erbaydar (2012) noted that "the mother tongue of the majority of the population is Kurdish" in the district. Demographic studies of Kurdish-majority provinces in Turkey have consistently included Doğubayazıt (in Ağrı Province) among areas with high concentrations of Kurdish speakers.
==History==
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