Kars Tourist Map With Attractions Visiting Places

History
From Paleolithic Period to Seljuks

The history of the Kars province seems to date back to the Chipped Stone Period, which was lived about two million years ago in many archaeological excavations. The hand-cut axes of the period-craftsmanship type dating from the periods of this period were found in the plain of Cilavuz Creek in Susuz district. Hand axes and large flakes were found in the plains west of Ağzıaçık Suyu and in Ani. In particular, the murals found in Yazılıkaya caves reveal that people are engaged in hunting and gathering in the region. In these paintings, mountain goats, deer and donkey figures are drawn. The province, which was within the borders of the Urartian Kingdom in the 9th century BC, was invaded by Cimmerians and Scythians in the 7th century BC. After this century, the domination of the Armenian Tigrans continued in the first century BC, in the lands that first came under the domination of Medes and then Persians. Later the region, which was under the rule of the Roman Empire; It came into the hands of the Parthians, the Araks, the Sassanids, the Byzantines and the Arabs. In the 11th century, these lands were re-ruled by the Byzantines and later by the Seljuks and Georgians. The region changed hands between the Anatolian Seljuks and the Georgians, the Mongols in 1239, then respectively İlhanlılar, Altınordu State, Karakoyunlu, Timur and again Karakoyunlu, Akkoyunlu and Safavids remained.

The period of the Ottoman Empire

In 1534, Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent joined the Ottoman Empire. Kars was attacked by Russians and Iranians many times until the 19th century. The region, which changed hands between the Russians and the Ottomans in this century, was taken by the Russians in 1877. Following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Kars, which was first conquered by the Armenians and rescued on 7 April 1918, was left to the Ottomans with the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. After the Armistice of Mondros, the British took over Kars, the center of the Southwest Caucasus Provisional Government. The British, who later left Kars to the Armenians and the Georgians, withdrew.

Kars, Turkey during the National Struggle

Kars, which was captured by Armenia after the British withdrawal, passed into the hands of the Turks on 30 October 1920 with the War of Independence. Kars, which reached its new borders with the Treaty of Moscow and Kars in 1921, was made a province after the proclamation of the Republic.