Taşlıçay ( ku, Avkevir,
) is a town in
Ağrı Province 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
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. It is the seat of
Taşlıçay District.
[İlçe Belediyesi]
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023. Its population is 6,140 (2021).
It is located in the valley of the
Murat River
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on the road from the city of
Ağrı
Ağrı ( ku, Agirî; ) is the capital of Ağrı Province in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. Formerly known as Karaköse ( ku, Qerekose) from the early Turkish republican period until 1946, and before that as Karakilise ( ota, قره ...
to
Doğubeyazıt and Turkey's border with
Iran
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. Its altitude is 1,660 m. The mayor is İsmet Taşdemir (
AKP).
Taşlıçay is surrounded by high mountains (2,000m plus), including; to the north
Perili,
Balıkgölü (3,159 m) and
Ziyarettepe (1,800 m) of the
South Aras range; and to the south the
Aladağlar
The Anti-Taurus Mountains (from el, Αντίταυρος) are a mountain range in southern and eastern Turkey, curving northeast from the Taurus Mountains.
At , Mount Erciyes ( Turkish: Erciyes Dağı) is the highest peak not just in the ran ...
, including
Muratbaşı (
Koçbaşı) (3,510 m) and
Kandil (2,750 m).
History
A
burial mound
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(
höyük) to the south of Taşlıçay and numerous other ruins in the district indicate a long and varied human presence in the region. There is an
Urartu
Urartu (; Assyrian: ',Eberhard Schrader, ''The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament'' (1885), p. 65. Babylonian: ''Urashtu'', he, אֲרָרָט ''Ararat'') is a geographical region and Iron Age kingdom also known as the Kingdom of V ...
temple and an
Armenia
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n monastery on the hill above the village of
Taşteker.
References
Populated places in Ağrı Province
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
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