Kars

Kars Կարս Qers
Municipality
Clockwise from top: View of Kars city centre, Castle of Kars, Panoramic view of Kars Topçuoğlu Hamam and Taşköprü, Cathedral of Kars
Kars Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 40°36′28″N 43°05′45″E / 40.60778°N 43.09583°E / 40.60778; 43.09583
Country	Turkey
Province	Kars
District	Kars
Government
• Mayor	Türker Öksüz [tr] (trustee)
Elevation	1,768 m (5,801 ft)
Population (2022)^[1]	91,450
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code	36000
Area code	0474
Website	www.kars.bel.tr

Kars (Armenian: Կարս or Ղարս;^[2] Azerbaijani: Qars; Kurdish: Qers^[3]) is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District.^[4] As of 2022, its population was 91,450.^[1] Kars, in classical historiography (Strabo), was in the ancient region known as Chorzene (Greek: Χορζηνή), part of the province of Ayrarat in the Kingdom of Armenia,^[5] and later the capital of the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia from 929 to 961. Currently, the mayor of Kars is Türker Öksüz.^[6] The city had an Armenian ethnic majority until it was re-captured by Turkish nationalist forces in late 1920.

^ ^a ^b "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
^ Arakelyan, Babken; Vardanyan, Vrezh; Khalpakhchyan, Hovhannes (1979). "s.v. Kars". Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. Yerevan. pp. 342–343.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Adem Avcıkıran (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (PDF) (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 57. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
^ İl Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^ Strabo. "Geography Stabo - Book XI - Chapter XIV". Retrieved 2011-05-30.
^ Gazete, Banka (26 November 2021). "Kars'ta Modern Besi Çiftliği ve Kesimhane tamamlanıyor". Gazete Banka. p. https://gazetebanka.com/. Retrieved 26 November 2021.