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Erzurumĕr'zooroom′ or Erzerum–zə–, city (1990 pop. 241,344), capital of Erzurum prov., E Turkey. It is an agricultural trade center and a railroad center. Agricultural products include sugar beets, wheat, barley, and vegetables. Metal and leather handicrafts are also produced. Although its origins are obscure, the city was known in the 5th cent. A.D. as Theodosiopolis, an important Byzantine frontier fortress. It was later held by various peoples, including the Armenians, Persians, and Seljuk Turks, before being captured by the Ottoman Turks in the early 16th cent. The first Turkish Nationalist congress was held there in 1919. It is the site of Atatürk Univ.
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Erzurum is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The name "Erzurum" derives from "Arz-u Rûm". To Arabs the city was known as Ḳālīḳalā, Inalcik, Halil. "Erzurum". Encyclopedia of Islam. vol. ii. P. Bearman et al. Leiden: Brill, 1965, p. 712. until the city was retaken by the Byzantines under Emperor Basil II. The town was known in Roman and subsequently Byzantine times as Theodosiopolis, acquiring its present name after its conquest by the Seljuk Turks following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.
Erzurum had a population of 361,235 in the 2000 census. It is the capital of Erzurum Province, the largest province in Turkey's Eastern Anatolia...more »
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- Manzikert
Manzikert, Turk. Malazgirt, village, E Turkey, SE of Erzurum. It was an important town of ancient Armenia. A council held there in A.D. 726 reasserted the independence of the Armenian Church f...
- Atatürk, Kemal
Atatürk, Kemal, 1881–1938, Turkish leader, founder of modern Turkey. He took the name in 1934 in place of his earlier name, Mustafa Kemal, when he ordered all Turks to adopt a surname; it is m...
- Kurds
Kurds, a non-Arab Middle Eastern minority population that inhabits the region known as Kurdistan, an extensive plateau and mountain area, c.74,000 sq mi (191,660 sq km), in SW Asia, including ...
