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Kars and Ani

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April 24, 2019

In the second of two posts about the region centred on Mount Ararat, I visit the cities of Kars and Ani, which were founded by the Armenians in the time of Anglo-Saxon England. Kars remains a bustling city, but Ani has been ruined for three hundred years and is now being restored. Ani is also hard on the border with modern day Armenia, a border closed since the early 1990s. The region is still traumatised by the massacre of the Armenians more than a hundred years ago.

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