Welcome to Kars!
Kars is a city in Eastern Anatolia. It is most frequently visited as a jumping-off point for travelers going to Ani, but it is a viable destination in its own right for its 19th-century Russian imperial buildings, and, of course, its role as the setting for Orhan Pamuk's famous novel Snow.
A small village on the Rideau River in Ottawa, Canada is named "Kars" in honor of General Sir William Fenwick Williams's defense of the town of Kars, Anatolia during the Crimean War.
Kars (Armenian: Կարս or Ղարս, Azerbaijani: Qars, Kurdish: Qers) is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. Its population is 73,836 as of 2011.
Kars was in the ancient region known as Chorzene, (in Greek Χορζηνή) in classical historiography (Strabo), part of the Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), in Ararat province. The mayor of Kars is Türker Öksüz.