Agri

Agri is the capital of Ağrı Province on the jap end of Turkey, close to the border with Iran. In the Ottoman Empire generation the vicinity became referred to as Karakilisa. The current metropolis centre turned into founded round 1860 via a set of Armenian merchants from Bitlis with the name Karakilise that have become regarded to the local population as Karakise and this model was grew to become officially to Karakose at the start of the Republican generation.

This name changed into changed to Agrı by using 1946. In the medieval length, the district's administrative centre turned into positioned at Alashkert, as soon as an critical metropolis. The "kara kilise" that gave the city its name changed into a medieval Armenian church. In 1895 Lynch stayed in Karakilise and wrote that it had among 1500-2000 inhabitants, was almost -thirds Armenian, and that a barracks for a locally recruited Kurdish Hamidiyeh regiment have been currently positioned in the city.

Agri includes maximum of the enterprise in Agri Province in which the primary financial interest is Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. There is Agri Meat and Milk Factory and the ELDESAN leather factory is considered one of the largest in the location. There is likewise a Sugar Factory, Shoe Factory Flour Mills, Agricultural Equipment manufacturing websites, brick factory, lime manufacturing facility, furnishings manufacturing facility, dairy factory and fabric turbines.