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Malazgirt is a city in Mus Province in eastern Turkey, with a population of 23,697. The agreement dates to the Iron Age: in keeping with the Soviet Encyclopedia it changed into mounted all through the reign of the Urartian king Menua. The Armenian name Manazkert is supposedly shortened from Manavazkert. The suffix -kert is regularly found in Armenian toponymy, meaning "constructed via". According to Movses Khorenatsi, Manzikert changed into founded through Manaz, one of the sons of Hayk, the mythical and eponymous patriarch and progenitor of the Armenians. You can come here with your family members and friends.

After the dying of Urartu it changed into successively a part of the New Assyrian Empire, the Median Empire, the Persian Empire, the Seleucid Empire, the Kingdom of Armenia, the Parthian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Rashidun Caliphate, the caliphates of the Umayyads and the Abbasids, and the Ottoman Empire. In 1915 Manzikert was part of Bitlis Vilayet and had a population of 5,000, the fantastic majority of them Armenians. The metropolis's economic system revolved around the cultivation of grain, exchange and the manufacturing of handicrafts. There existed Armenian churches, Yerek Khoran Surb Astvatsatsin, and one Armenian faculty.

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