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Kars ranks 4,678th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Manor Park, London, Porbandar, and Mühlhausen. Memorable people born in Kars include Yeghishe Charents, Hayranidil Kadın, and Vladimir Triandafillov. Kars has been the birth place of many writers, and political scientists. Kars is located in Türkiye.

Kars is a city in northeast Turkey. It is the seat of Kars Province and Kars District. As of 2022, its population was 91,450. Kars, in classical historiography (Strabo), was in the ancient region known as Chorzene, part of the province of Ayrarat in the Kingdom of Armenia, and later the capital of the Bagratid Kingdom of Armenia from 929 to 961. Currently, the mayor of Kars is Türker Öksüz. The city had an Armenian ethnic majority until it was re-captured by Turkish nationalist forces in late 1920. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1846 and 1993, Kars was the birth place of 4 globally memorable people, including Yeghishe Charents, Hayranidil Kadın, and Vladimir Triandafillov.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Kars were writers (1), political scientists (1), military personnels (1), and athletes (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, athletes have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Kars, including Hatice Kübra İlgün. Whereas, throughout history, writers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Kars, including Yeghishe Charents.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Kars since 1700.