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Ardahan
Ardahan is a city in north-eastern Turkey, the capital of Ardahan Province, on the upper Kura river near the Georgian border. Long held by Georgian rulers and then by the Ottoman Empire, it was taken by Russia in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. It returned to Ottoman control in 1918, was contested by Georgia, and became part of Turkey under the Treaty of Kars in 1921.
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