Arpaçay is a town and a district of
Kars Province
Kars Province ( tr, Kars ili; ku, Parêzgeha Qersê; hy, Կարսի նահանգ) is a province of Turkey, located in the northeastern part of the country. It shares part of its closed border with Armenia. The provincial capital is the city of ...
in the
Eastern Anatolia
The Eastern Anatolia Region ('' tr, Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi'') is a geographical region of Turkey. The most populous province in the region is Van Province. Other populous provinces are Malatya, Erzurum and Elazığ.
It is bordered by the Bl ...
region of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. The population is 2,503 as of 2010. The mayor is Erçetin Altay (
AKP).
Azerbaijanis and their subgroups of
Terekemes and
Karapapaks make up the majority in the town.
Names
While the
Turkish and
Azerbaijani names of the town are Arpaçay, it was called Zaruşat until
it was officially renamed in 1922.
The town's names in other languages are as follows:
* hy, Զարիշատ, translit=Zarišat
* ota, زاروشاد, translit=Zaruşad
[Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla)'', T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Yayın Nu 21, Ankara, p. 534.]
* ka, წინუბანი / სულა ზარიშტიანი, tr
*
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
: ''Zarûşad''
Notable natives
*
Azer Bülbül
Subutay Kesgin, better known by his stage name Azer Bülbül ( b. 1 February 1969 – 6 January 2012), the most famous of Idealistic ideology politics was a prominent Turkish folk music artist and actor.
Biography
Azer Bülbül was born Sub ...
, singer
See also
*
Lake Kuyucuk
Lake Kuyucuk ( tr, Kuyucuk Gölü) is a small shallow lake located in Arpaçay district of Kars Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It has an area of and a maximum depth at . The lake area is an internationally recognized Ramsar s ...
References
Towns in Turkey
Populated places in Kars Province
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