Place:Dogubayazit, Agri, Turkey

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NameDogubayazit
Alt namesBayazidsource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 247
Bayazitsource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 247
Doğubayazıitsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Doğubayazıtsource: Wikipedia
TypeTown
Coordinates39.55°N 44.083°E
Located inAgri, Turkey     (100 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Doğubayazıt[1] is a district of Ağrı Province of Turkey, and it is the easternmost district of Turkey, lying near the border with Iran. Its elevation is 1625m and its area is 2,383 km². Doğubayazıt's population in 2010 was 115,354 (up from 73,794 in 1980) of which 69,447 live in the town of Doğubayazıt, the remainder in the surrounding countryside. Also known as Kurdava, the town was the capital of the self-declared Republic of Ararat, an independent Kurdish state centered in the Ağrı Province.

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