Eleşkirt

Municipality in Ağrı, Turkey

Eleşkirt Alashkert • Ալաշկերտ
Municipality
General view of Eleşkirt. Mount Kösedağ appears in the background
39°47′53″N 42°40′28″E / 39.79806°N 42.67444°E / 39.79806; 42.67444
Country	Turkey
Province	Ağrı
District	Eleşkirt
Government
• Mayor	Ramazan Yakut (SP)
Elevation	1,840 m (6,040 ft)
Population (2021)^[1]	10,191
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Website	www.eleskirt.bel.tr

Eleşkirt (Kurdish: Zêdikan)^[2] is a town of Ağrı Province in Turkey. It is the seat of Eleşkirt District.^[3] Its population is 10,191 (2021).^[1] Its name is a transference from Alashkert (Armenian: Ալաշկերտ, romanized: Alaškert), the valley's former administrative centre but now a village known as Toprakkale. It was known as Vagharshakert in medieval sources.^[4] At the time of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 approximately half of the population consisted of Armenians and the rest of Kurds and Turks.^[5]

The mayor is Ramazan Yakut (Felicity Party).^[6]

Notable people

Şakiro

References

^ ^a ^b "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
^ Avcıkıran, Adem (2009). Kürtçe Anamnez Anamneza bi Kurmancî (in Turkish and Kurdish). p. 56.
^ İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
^ Sinclair, T.A. London, 1989, "Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume II" p. 280
^ Zatikyan, Hovhannes [Զատիկյան, Հովհաննես] Noravank, 2013, "Garin province in the second half of the nineteenth century" [ Կարինի նահանգը XIX դարի երկրորդ կեսին] pp. 391, 402 url = http://www.noravank.am/upload/pdf/KARINI_NAHANGY.pdf
^ "Ağrı Eleşkirt Seçim Sonuçları - 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri". www.sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 2019-09-09.