Alaca
Alaca is a village in Kars, Turkey and has about 365 residents and an elevation of 1,633 metres. Alaca is situated nearby to the village Üçbölük, as well as near Kozluca.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bagnayr Monastery.
Bagnayr Monastery
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Bagnayr Monastery is a monastery in Kozluca, Kars, 7 kilometers northwest of Ani, built in the 11th century CE. It was "one of the most renowned monastic complexes in medieval Armenia". Bagnayr Monastery is situated 3½ km northwest of Alaca.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kozluca and Ani.
Kozluca
Village
Kozluca is a village in the Kars District of Kars Province, Turkey. Its population is 102. The village houses the remains of the Armenian Bagnayr Monastery, built in the 10th century CE. Kozluca is situated 3 km north of Alaca.
Ani
Village
Photo: Jaba1977, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ani is a village, which is situated 7 km northeast of Alaca.
Norshen
Village
Norshen is a village in the Ani Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. Norshen is situated 8 km east of Alaca.
Alaca
- Type: Village with 365 residents
- Description: village in central district, Kars, northeastern Turkey
- Categories: village of Turkey and locality
- Location: Kars, Kars Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.48766° or 40° 29′ 16″ northLongitude
43.49999° or 43° 30′ eastPopulation
365Elevation
1,633 metres (5,358 feet)Open location code
8HG5FFQX+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1199421052OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
752276Wikidata ID
Q6934089
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yoruba—“Alaca” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ալաջա”
- Azerbaijani: “Alaca”
- Basque: “Alaca”
- Catalan: “Alaca”
- Cebuano: “Alaca”
- Chechen: “Аладжа”
- Czech: “Alaca”
- Danish: “Alaca”
- Dutch: “Alaca”
- Finnish: “Alaca”
- French: “Alaca”
- German: “Alaca”
- Indonesian: “Alaca”
- Italian: “Alaca”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alaca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alaca”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alaca”
- Polish: “Alaca”
- Portuguese: “Alaca”
- Romanian: “Alaca”
- Russian: “Аладжа”
- Slovak: “Alaca”
- Slovenian: “Alaca”
- Spanish: “Alaca”
- Swedish: “Alaca”
- Tagalog: “Alaca”
- Tatar: “Алаҗа”
- Turkish: “Alaca, Kars”
- Turkish: “Alaca”
- Uzbek: “Alaca”
- Vietnamese: “Alaca, Kars”
- Vietnamese: “Alaca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alaca”
- Yoruba: “Alaca”
- “Alaca”
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Localities in the Area
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