Eleşkirt

Eleşkirt is a town of in . It is the seat of . Its population is 10,191. Its name is a transference from Alashkert, the valley's former administrative centre but now a village known as Toprakkale.
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  • Town with about 34,200 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,820 metres (5,970 feet)
  • Description: district and town of Ağrı, Turkey
  • Also known as
    “Toprakkale”
    “Zeydekan”
    “Zeydikân”
    “Zidikân”
  • Historically known as
    “Alashkert”
    “Pakrewan”
    “Zêdkan”
    “پاکرەوان”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yücekapı and Gözaydın.
is a town and municipality in the , , . is situated 7 km southeast of Eleşkirt.
Herbaryan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village, which is situated 9 km northwest of Eleşkirt.

Eleşkirt

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Latitude
39.79838° or 39° 47′ 54″ north
Longitude
42.67547° or 42° 40′ 32″ east
Open location code
8HF4QMXG+95
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2292400087
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
315758
Wiki­data ID
Q918800

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Eleşkirt” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “زیدکان”
  • Armenian: “Ալաշկերտ”
  • Armenian: “Էլեշկիրտ”
  • Armenian: “Թոփրակ–կալե”
  • Asturian: “Eleşkirt (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Eleşkirt”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ələşgird”
  • Catalan: “Alasgird”
  • Catalan: “Alashgird”
  • Catalan: “Alashkert”
  • Catalan: “Eleşkirt”
  • Cebuano: “Eleşkirt”
  • Central Kurdish: “زێدکان”
  • Chechen: “Элешкирт”
  • Chinese: “埃莱什基尔特”
  • Chinese: “埃萊什基爾特”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Eleşkirt”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Zêdıkan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Zêdkan”
  • Dutch: “Eleşkirt”
  • Esperanto: “Eleşkirt”
  • Finnish: “Eleşkirt”
  • French: “Eleşkirt”
  • Gagauz: “Eleşkirt”
  • German: “Eleşkirt”
  • German: “Landkreis Eleşkirt”
  • Gilaki: “الشکيرت”
  • Hebrew: “אלשקירט”
  • Irish: “Eleşkirt”
  • Italian: “Eleşkirt”
  • Japanese: “アラシュケルト”
  • Japanese: “エレシュキルト”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Eleşkirt”
  • Kurdish: “Elajgir”
  • Kurdish: “Eleşkirt”
  • Kurdish: “Zêdikan”
  • Kurdish: “Zêdka”
  • Kurdish: “Zêdkan”
  • Kurdish: “Zetikyan”
  • Kurdish: “Zêtka”
  • Kurdish: “زێتکا”
  • Lak: “Элешкирт”
  • Malay: “Eleşkirt”
  • Mazanderani: “الشکیرت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Eleşkirt”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eleşkirt”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eleşkirt”
  • Norwegian: “Eleşkirt”
  • Persian: “الشکیرت”
  • Polish: “Eleşkirt”
  • Russian: “Алашкерт”
  • Russian: “Вагаршакерт”
  • Russian: “Зейдекян”
  • Russian: “Элешкирт”
  • Serbian: “Алашкерт” (historical)
  • Serbian: “Елешкирт”
  • Swahili: “Eleşkirt”
  • Tatar: “Элешкирт”
  • Turkish: “Eleşkirt”
  • Urdu: “الشکیرت”
  • Uzbek: “Eleşkirt”
  • Vietnamese: “Eleşkirt”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալաշկերտ”
  • Western Armenian: “Զետկան”
  • Western Armenian: “Զէյտիխան”
  • Western Mari: “Элешкирт”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع السکرٹ”

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