Ispir

Ispir is a town and region of Erzurum Province in the Eastern Anatolia district of Turkey, on the Coruh River. The chairman is Osman Cakır AKP. The region has a populace of 30,260 while the town has a populace of 11,789. Ispir is known from the 3000 years BC. The name Sper is thought by some to be gotten from Saspers, a clan made reference to by Xenophon. The famous line of the Bagrationi began in the most antiquated Georgian region – Speri today Ispir. Through their farsighted, adaptable approaches, the Bagrationi accomplished incredible impact from the 6^th through 8^th century. One of their branches moved out to Armenia, the other to Georgian Kingdom of Iberia, and both won for themselves the predominant position among alternate leaders of Transcaucasia.

Speri was a piece of the Georgian Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti. In the 3^rd – 4^th century BC, it was composed into an area of the Iberian Kingdom as verified by Strabo and amid consequent century it much of the time changed hands among Georgians and Armenians. Alexander the Great sent one of his commanders Menon to overcome Speri, however Menon and his powers were vanquished and killed. Sper was an Armenian Bagratid space in the fourth to 6^th century, an area whose region likewise included the Bayburt plain until that was lost to the Byzantines maybe in 387.