Ardahan (Province)

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Ardahan
Province number: 75
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Basic data
Coordinates: 41 ° 7 ′  N , 42 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 7 ′  N , 42 ° 49 ′  E
Provincial capital: Ardahan
Region: Eastern Anatolia
Surface: 4934
Population: 98,907 (2018)
Population density: 20 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor: Mustafa Masatlı
Seats in Parliament: 2
Structural
Telephone code: 0478
Features : 75
Website
www.ardahan.gov.tr (Turkish)
Şeytan Kalesi Castle

Ardahan is a Turkish province in the northeast of the country on the border with Georgia and thus a border region between Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasia . Between 1924 and 1926 the province of Ardahan was already independent, then came to the province of Kars and was spun off from this again in 1992. The capital of the province is Ardahan of the same name .

In the south it borders on the province of Kars, in the southwest on Erzurum , in the west on Artvin and in the north and east on Georgia. A small part borders on Armenia . It has an area of ​​4,934 km² and 97,096 inhabitants (as of the end of 2017). The population consists of Turks and Azerbaijanis (including Yerli- Ahiska and Karapapaks / Terekeme ) and minorities such as Georgians , Lasen , Kurds , Circassians and others. Ardahan is also the first destination for guest workers (including Georgians and Azerbaijanis).

Administrative division

The province is divided into six districts (districts, İlçe ):

district Area 1
(km²) 		Population (2018) 2 Number of Units Density
(Ew / km²) 		urban
share (in%) 		Sex
ratio 3 		Founding
date 4.5
District ( İlçe ) Administrative headquarters
(Merkez) 		Municipalities
(Belediye) 		City
quarter
(Mahalle) 		Villages
(Köy)
Ardahan Merkez 1,261 42,226 22,169 1 7th 62 33.5 52.50 939 1992
Çıldır 988 9,833 2,855 1 9 34 10.0 29.03 900 1992
Back then 165 5,802 3,167 1 8th 7th 35.2 54.58 766
Göle 1,290 25.187 5,969 2 8th 49 19.5 31.99 923
Hanak 647 9,054 3,008 1 6th 26th 14.0 33.22 942 1958
Posof 583 6,805 2.224 1 2 48 11.7 32.68 895
PROVINCE of Ardahan 4,934 98.907 7th 40 226 20.0 41.94 917

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1 Area 2014
2 Population update as of December 31, 2018
3 Gender ratio : number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
4th Ministry of Interior PDF
5Counties that were not formed until after Turkey was founded (1923).

population

At the 2011 census, the average age in the province was 28.3 years (national average: 29.6), with the female population being on average 2.5 years older than the male population (29.6-27.1).

Annual population development

The following table shows the annual population development at the end of the year after updating by the addressable population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007. In addition, the population growth rate and the sex ratio (are Sex Ratio h. Number of women per 1,000 men d.) Listed.
The 2011 census found 107,776 inhabitants, almost 26,000 fewer than in the 2000 census.

year Population at the end of the year Population growth
rate (in%)

 Gender
ratio
(women per
1000 men) 		Rank
(among 81 provinces)
total male Female
2018 98.907 51,593 47,314 1.87 917 79
2017 97.096 50,317 46,779 −1.26 930
2016 98,335 50,884 47,451 −0.94 933
2015 99,265 51.141 48.124 −1.53 941
2014 100,809 51,939 48,870 −1.92 941
2013 102,782 52,937 49,845 −3.62 942
2012 106,643 55,824 50,819 −0.76 910
2011 107,455 56,467 50,988 1.90 903
2010 105.454 54.023 51,431 −2.51 952
2009 108.169 56.093 52,076 −3.63 928
2008 112,242 58,673 53,569 −0.42 913
2007 112,721 58,095 54,626 - 940
2000 1 133,756 69,833 63,923 915 78

1 2000 census

Population of the counties

The values ​​from 2000 are based on the census, the remaining (2007-2018) are population figures at the end of the year, determined by updating the population register introduced in 2007 (ADNKS)

district 2000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Çıldır 14,869 11,901 11,800 10,833 10,546 10,675 10,753 10,476 10.134 9,759 9,539 9,361 9,833
Back then 8,677 7,606 7.108 6,977 6,737 6,544 6,245 5,897 5,767 5,554 5,369 5,345 5,802
Göle 37,814 32.134 32,578 30,912 29,897 30,727 29,968 28,032 27,142 26,254 25,679 25.178 25.187
Hanak 14,873 10,656 10,666 10,346 10.135 9,963 9,891 9,804 9,484 9,305 9,019 8,887 9,054
Merkez 44,794 40,828 40,875 40,455 39,676 41,287 41,770 40,874 40,960 41,422 41,939 41,758 42,226
Posof 12,729 9,596 9,215 8,646 8,463 8,259 8,016 7,699 7,322 6,971 6,790 6,567 6,805
Toplam 133,756 112,721 112,242 108.169 105.454 107,455 106,643 102,782 100,809 99,265 98,335 97.096 98.907

history

The oldest inscriptions from Ardahan can be found at Çıldır ( Hanak inscription ) and come from the Urartians . The Cimmerians got here in the 8th century BC. BC on their way from the Caucasus to Anatolia in hostile contact with the kingdom of Urartu. After Urartu ruled around 650 BC The Medes this area. The rule of the Medes went in 550 BC. To the Persians . Ardahan then belonged to various empires and cultures, including the Georgians, Greeks , Romans and Armenians , and came under the control of the Seljuks in 1069 . Since 1551, the ruled here Ottomans that the area after the Russo-Turkish War of 1878, the Russian Tsarist Empire had to cede. After the First World War , Ardahan came briefly to the Democratic Republic of Georgia . After the occupation of Georgia by Soviet Russia , the province was transferred to Turkey with the Treaty of Kars in 1922 . Ardahan was combined into one province with Kars, but restored as a separate province in 1992.

Attractions

literature

  • Georg Kobro: The area of ​​Kars and Ardahan. Munich 1989.

Web links

Commons : Ardahan Province  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu , accessed on April 23, 2019
  2. ^ Ardahan Province website (portrait of the governor) , accessed April 23, 2019
  3. ↑ Directorate General of Mapping İl ve İlçe Yüzölçümleri (PDF; 0.25 MB).
  4. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu , accessed on April 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ illeridaresi.gov.tr (PDF; 1.4 MB).
  6. ↑ 2000 census (Turkish)
  7. ↑ MDS / Central Dissemination System from TÜIK (Eng./Turk.)