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Ardahan

أردهان

A town in eastern Turkey on the Kuručay, which becomes the Kura, at about 1,800 m. It was once the capital of a sandjak in the iyalet of Kars; the treaty of San Stefano (1878) ceded it to Russia, Georgia returned it on 23 February 1921, and it is now the capital of a kaza in the vilayet of Kars 1.

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Ardahan is a town in eastern Turkey, at about 41 degrees 8 minutes north and 42 degrees 42 minutes east, on the Kuručay, which becomes the Kura. It lies at about 1,800 m above sea level. 1

Changes of rule

Ardahan was once the capital of a sandjak in the iyalet of Kars. The Treaty of San Stefano (1878) ceded the town, its district and Kars to Russia. On 23 February 1921 Georgia ceded it back, and it has remained Turkish since. 1

Population

In 1945 the town had 6,182 inhabitants, and its kaza had 49,699. 1

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 1 p. 674
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islam.museum contributors. “Ardahan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ardahan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.

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