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unusual facts about Ardahan Province


Ardahan Province

Until 1993 Ardahan was a district of the province of Kars, becoming a province in its own right has meant more investment in infrastructure


Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

Afterward, both Turkey and the newly proclaimed Soviet republic negotiated the Treaty of Kars, in which Turkey ceded Adjara to the USSR in exchange for the Kars territory, corresponding to the modern-day Turkish provinces of Kars, Iğdır, and Ardahan.

At the end of the war, after Germany's capitulation, many Armenians in both the Republic, including Armenian Communist Party First Secretary Grigor Harutyunyan (Arutyunov), and the diaspora lobbied Stalin to reconsider the issue of taking back the provinces of Kars, Iğdır, and Ardahan, which Armenia had lost to Turkey in the Treaty of Kars.

Gazikumukh Khanate

Surkhay-khan II gave many battles of which the largest were at Tiflis, Derbent, Khosrekh, Chirakh, Kurakh, Kartukh, Alazani, Quba, Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki, Kartli, Kakheti, fortress Surkhayli in Cherkessia, Ganja, Yerevan, Kars, Ardagan and Erzurum.

Karapapak

The Karapapak (Qarapapaq, Terekeme, Tərəkəmə) (meaning Black Hat) are a Turkic-speaking sub-ethnic group of Azerbaijanis who mainly live in Azerbaijan, in Georgia, in the northeast of Turkey near the border with Georgia and Armenia, primarily in the provinces of Ardahan (around Lake Çıldır), Kars and Iğdır, and in Iran.

Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus

After the treaties concluding the Turkish-Armenian War, the present-day Kars Province and adjacent districts constituting the modern-day Ardahan and Iğdır provinces became part of Turkey.

Treaty of Kars

On June 7, 1945, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov told the Turkish ambassador in Moscow that the provinces of Kars, Ardahan and Artvin should be returned to the USSR, in the name of both the Georgian and Armenian republics.

Turkish–Armenian War

The succeeding Treaty of Kars, signed by the representatives of Azerbaijan SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, and the GNAT, ceded Adjara to Soviet Georgia in exchange for the Kars territory (today the Turkish provinces of Kars, Iğdır, and Ardahan).


see also

Alagöz

Alagöz, Ardahan, a village in the district of Ardahan, Ardahan Province, Turkey

Arılı

Arılı, Posof, a village in the district of Posof, Ardahan Province

Çiçekli

Çiçeklidağ, Hanak, ("flower mountain"), a village in Hanak district of Ardahan Province, Turkey

Demirdöven

Demirdöven, Posof, a village in the district of Posof, Ardahan Province

Doğankaya

Doğankaya, Çıldır, a village in the district of Çıldır, Ardahan Province

Gölgeli

Gölgeli, Ardahan, a village in the district of Ardahan, Ardahan Province

Gümüşkavak

Gümüşkavak, Posof, a village in the district of Posof, Ardahan Province

Hasköy

Hasköy, Ardahan, a village in the district of Ardahan, Ardahan Province

İsmail Ateş

İsmail Ateş (pronounced /ˌɪsˈmɑːɪl ˌɑtɛʃ/, born Göle, Ardahan Province, Turkey; 1960) is a Turkish artist and professor.

Taşlıdere

Taşlıdere, Ardahan, a village in the district of Ardahan, Ardahan Province

Yolağzı

Yolağzı, Posof, a village in the district of Posof, Ardahan Province