Karacaören ( Armenian Նովոէստոնսկոյե Novoestonskoje , German “New Estonia” or Estonagan , “Estonians”) is a village in the district of Kars in the Turkish province of Kars ; it is known nationwide as the German village in Turkey ( Turkish: Türkiye'deki Alman köyü ) because the majority of the Baltic Germans from the Estonia region lived here until the second half of the 20th century . Until 1921 the village belonged to Armenia , since then to Turkey . Today mostly Turkish Alevis live here , although a German family has remained to this day . The village of Novoestonskoje or Estonagan was founded during the rule of the Russian Empire from 1878 by the settlement of families from the Wierland district in the northeast of the then Estonia governorate in May 1886. A church was built here. After the Second World War , some families went to the Soviet Union . Due to the recruitment agreement with West Germany at the beginning of the 1960s, many of the younger residents of German origin emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany together with other Turkish citizens . In the 1965 census, only 21 people spoke German in the village. The village was discovered in 1966 by the Swedish - Estonian researcher Paavo Roos and scientifically described; his brother Aarand Roos recorded the situation in the village from 1967 to 1974. In the 20th century, the name of the village was turkish and renamed Karacaviran . The musician Barış Manço visited the village in the 1990s and made it known to the Turkish public.
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Aarand Roos : Jumalaga, Kars ja Erzurum: Türgi eestlaste ajalugu . 3rd and updated edition: Communal Project, Tallinn 1992, OCLC 31013229
↑ The Caucasus historian Artur Zuzijew (Tsutsiev) draws the place on this ethnolinguistic map of the Caucasus from 1886-90 as a German village near southwest of Kars. Artur Zuzijew (Tsutsiev): 1886–1890 Этнолингвстическая карта. In: Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Vladikavkaz, 2006, accessed on June 2, 2020 (in Russian, The German village is marked by a blue upright rectangle.). English translation: Artur Tsutsiev: Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. Yale University Press, New Haven / London, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-15308-8 ( preview in Google Books ).
