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    The Kars oblast was a province (oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire between 1878 and 1917. Its capital was the city of Kars, presently...
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    Kamchatka Oblast Kars Oblast Caspian Oblast (1840-1846) Kwantung Oblast Kuban Oblast Orenburg Kirgiz Omsk Oblast Primorskaya Oblast Sakhalin Taurida Oblast (1783-1796)...
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    city of Kars in historical northern Armenia, which Russia now administered as Kars Oblast, i.e. the militarily administered province of Kars, which also...
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    Kars (Armenian: Կարս or Ղարս; Azerbaijani: Qars; Kurdish: Qers) is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District. As of...
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  • of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived. In the Soviet Union, oblasts were one of the types...
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    Azerbaijan. The treaty was signed in the city of Kars on 13 October 1921. Signatories of the Treaty of Kars included representatives from the Grand National...
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    Kars Province (Turkish: Kars ili; Azerbaijani: Qars Rayonu; Kurdish: Parêzgeha Qersê; Armenian: Կարսի նահանգ) is a province of Turkey, located in the northeastern...
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  • conflicts between Armenians and Tatars." In October 1919, Muslim authorities in Kars appealed to Azerbaijan for means to transport 25 thousand refugees. Throughout...
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  • The Kardashians were Armenian Spiritual Christians originally from Kars Oblast, and known by the surname Kardaschoff, a Russianized form of the Armenian...
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    Okrug Artvin Okrug Kars Oblast Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of Berlin (1878) Russian: Батумская область, romanized: Batumskaya oblast [bətʊmskəjə ɐbɫəsʲtʲ]...
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    man Karapapakh woman from near Kars as depicted by Max Karl Tilke (1915) Several years after the Russian conquest of Kars, the Tsarist government conducted...
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    exchange for the Kars territory (today the Turkish provinces of Kars, Iğdır, and Ardahan). Under the treaties, an autonomous Nakhichevan oblast was established...
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    south, Kars Oblast to the southwest, Batum Oblast to the west, Kutaisi Governorate to the northwest, Terek Oblast to the north, Dagestan Oblast to the...
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    Ardahan (category Kars Oblast)
    1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War and was made a part of the Ardahan Okrug of the Kars Oblast. The majority of the town was made up of Armenians, while other ethnic...
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    Greek refugees also settled in the former Russian Caucasus province of Kars Oblast following the Russian empire's acquisition of a large area of northeastern...
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    included other parts of Eastern Anatolia, the former Russian province of Kars Oblast in the Transcaucasus, and the country of Georgia. Those from southern...
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    29 October, Kars was surrounded on three sides, however, was well armed and prepared to withstand an assault. The military council of Kars prohibited the...
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    Kağızman (category Kars Oblast)
    The town was the administrative center of the Kagizman Okrug of the Kars Oblast until 1918. Rohat Alakom, writer "Address-based population registration...
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    populations in much of the Erzurum Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire and Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire. After the Armenian genocide of 1915, most of Erzurum's...
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    to the Zarushat and Shuragel uyezds of the newly created Kars Oblast to the north-east of Kars in the modern-day Republic of Turkey. The leader of the...
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    what, between 1878 and 1917, made up the Russian Caucasus province of Kars Oblast, in which Pontic Greeks, northeastern Anatolian Greeks, and Caucasus...
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    childhood in Kars, which, from 1878 to 1918, was the administrative capital of the Russian-ruled Transcaucasus province of Kars Oblast, a border region...
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    Governorate to the north, the Elizavetpol Governorate to the east, the Kars Oblast to the west, and Persia and the Ottoman Empire to the south. Mount Ararat...
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  • Turkey Kars Eyalet, Ottoman Empire Kars Oblast, Russian Empire Kars Republic Jean-Rodolphe Kars (born 1947), French pianist "Kars 1" and "Kars 2 (Wounds...
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    (Kurdish: Zerqamîş, Armenian: Սարիղամիշ, romanized: Sariġamiš) is a town in Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It is the seat of Sarıkamış...
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    Batum, Ardahan, and Kars in Transcaucasia, which were transformed into the militarily administered regions of Batum Oblast and Kars Oblast. To replace Muslim...
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    acquired the regions of Batum, Ardahan, Kars, Olti, and Sarikamish and reconstituted them into the Kars Oblast. During the course of the war, the majority...
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    in the newly-independent Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Kars Oblast, the last of which became part of Turkey. The new Soviet Union initially...
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    Oltu (category Kars Oblast)
    the Olti Okrug of the militarily administered Kars Oblast. The Olti Okrug along with the entire Kars Oblast were ceded by the Russian SFSR to the Ottoman...
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    The Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway line is a railway line that runs from the city of Kars in Turkey to the Armenian city of Gyumri, and from there on to Tbilisi...
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