Ağrı
Municipality in Turkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the place in Azerbaijan, see Ağrı, Azerbaijan. For Mount Ağrı (Ağrı Dağı), see Mount Ararat.
Ağrı (Turkish pronunciation: [ɑːɾɯ]; Kurdish: Agirî;[2] Armenian: Քարբեր, romanized: Karber[3]) is a city in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. It is the seat of Ağrı Province and Ağrı District.[4] Its population is 120,390 (2021).[1] Formerly known as Karaköse (Kurdish: Qerekose)[5] from the early Turkish republican period until 1946, and before that as Karakilise (Ottoman Turkish: قرهکلیسا, romanized: Karakilisa, lit. 'Black Church'; Armenian: Ղարաքիլիսա, romanized: Gharakilisa), the city is now named after Ağrı, the Turkish name of Mount Ararat.[6]