Erzurum

Erzurum is a city in eastern Anatolia. It is the biggest city in and eponymous capital of Erzurum Province. Erzurum had a populace of 361,235 in the 2000 evaluation, expanding to 367,250 by 2010. As Ancient Theodosiopolis in Armenia or "in Cappadocia", the previous precinct remains a Latin Catholic main look. The city utilizes the twofold headed Anatolian Seljuk Eagle as its crest, a theme that was a typical image all through Anatolia and the Balkans in the medieval period.

Erzurum has probably the best winter sports offices in Turkey and facilitated the 2011 Winter Universiade. The surroundings of Erzurum at the Urartian time frame apparently had a place with Diauehi. Later, Erzurum existed under the Armenian name of Karin. Amid the rules of the Artaxiad and Arsacid rulers of Armenia, Karin filled in as the capital of the eponymous canton of Karin, in the territory Bardzr Hayk' Upper Armenia.

After the parcel of Armenia between the Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanid Persia in 387 AD, the city go under the control of the Romans. They braced the city and renamed it Theodosiopolis, after Emperor Theodosius I. As the main military fortification along the eastern outskirt of the domain, Theodosiopolis held an exceedingly critical vital area and was savagely challenged in wars between the Byzantines and Persians. Heads Anastasius and Justinian both refortified the city and assembled new protections amid their rules.