Taşburun is a village in

Karakoyunlu District Karakoyunlu District is a district of the Iğdır Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Karakoyunlu.Iğdır Province Iğdır Province (, , , ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in eastern Turkey, located along the borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan (the area of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic), and Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars Province, Kars to the north ...

, Turkey. Its population is 927 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

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'').Law No. 6360
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'', 6 December 2012 . The village is populated by

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Geography

Taşburun is situated on Turkish state highway D.080 which connects Turkey to the

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is to the south and

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is to the east. The distance to Karakoyunlu is and to

Iğdır Iğdır (; or ; ; or ) is a city in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It is the seat of Iğdır Province and Iğdır District.

is .

History

According to mayor's page Taşburun was founded by Turkmen tribe named ''Taşburun'' after

Seljuks The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids ( ; , ''Saljuqian'',) alternatively spelled as Saljuqids or Seljuk Turks, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture. The founder of th ...

annexed the area to their realm in 1064. In 1239 it was captured by the

Mongols Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China ( Inner Mongolia and other 11 autonomous territories), as well as the republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family o ...

and in 1514 by the

Ottoman Turks The Ottoman Turks () were a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group in Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire, in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the e ...

. It was ceded to

Safavid Iran The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often considered the begi ...

by the Treaty of Istanbul (1736) . In 1746 it was returned to Ottoman Empire by the

Treaty of Kerden Treaty of Kerden (, Persian language, Persian:عهدنامه گردان) was signed between Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran on 4 September 1746. It concluded the Ottoman–Persian War (1743–46), Ottoman–Persian War (1743–1746). Background ...

but lost to

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by the

Treaty of San Stefano The 1878 Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano (; Peace of San-Stefano, ; Peace treaty of San-Stefano, or ) was a treaty between the Russian and Ottoman empires at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. It was signed at San Ste ...

signed after the

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) The Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and a coalition led by the Russian Empire which included United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, Romania, Principality of Serbia, Serbia, and Principality of ...

. At the end of the

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, it was captured by Armenian forces however during the

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

Mustafa Kemal Pasha decided to launch attack on the Armenian state which began the

Turkish-Armenian War Armenians in Turkey (; or , ), one of the indigenous peoples of Turkey, have an estimated population of 40,000 to 50,000 today, down from a population of over 2 million Armenians between the years 1914 and 1921. Today, the overwhelming majority ...

of 1920. Following the end of this war, it was returned to

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. In 1993 it was declared a seat of township.Mayor's page

Population

Economy

Main economic sectors are agriculture and animal breeding. There is also a small flour factory.

References

External links

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Official website of the Taşburun Municipality
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Official website of the Karakoyunlu District
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