Ani
Ani is an abandoned city in Eastern Anatolia, 44 km east of Kars and right on the border with Armenia. It was the chief city of Armenia in the 11th century, but dwindled thereafter, and was abandoned in the 13th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Ruined medieval Armenian city in Kars, Turkey, and UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Also known as: “Abnicum”, “Aniköyü”, “Ocakli”, and “Ocaklı”
Photo: Balkanique, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral of Ani and Menucihr Mosque.
Cathedral of Ani
Church
The Cathedral of Ani is the largest standing building in Ani, the capital city of medieval Bagratid Armenia, located in present-day eastern Turkey, on the border with modern Armenia.
Menucihr Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Menucihr Mosque, also Manučehr Mosque is a mosque in the medieval city of Ani in Kars Province, Turkey. It was built between 1072 and 1086 by Manuchihr ibn Shavur of the Kurdish Shaddadid dynasty. The restoration of the mosque started in June 2020.
Tigran Honents Church
Church
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of St Gregory of Tigran Honents, or Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator is a medieval religious structure located in Ani, in Turkey's Kars province next to the closed border with Armenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norshen and Ani.
Ani
- Categories: ancient city, tourist attraction, fortress, historic site, and tourism
- Location: Kars, Kars Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.5062° or 40° 30′ 22″ northLongitude
43.5728° or 43° 34′ 22″ eastElevation
1,477 metres (4,846 feet)Open location code
8HG5GH4F+F4OpenStreetMap ID
way 157441696OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Ani” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آني”
- Armenian: “Անի (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Անի”
- Asturian: “Ani”
- Azerbaijani: “Ani”
- Basque: “Ani”
- Belarusian: “Ані”
- Bulgarian: “Ани (град)”
- Bulgarian: “Ани”
- Catalan: “Akhurianí”
- Catalan: “Ani”
- Catalan: “Aní”
- Chinese: “阿尼”
- Chinese: “阿尼古城”
- Chinese: “阿尼考古遗址”
- Croatian: “Ani”
- Czech: “Ani”
- Dutch: “Ani”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آنى”
- Esperanto: “Anio (urbo)”
- Esperanto: “Anio”
- Finnish: “Ani”
- French: “Ani”
- French: “Site archéologique d’Ani”
- French: “Անի”
- Georgian: “ანისი”
- German: “Ani (Türkei)”
- German: “Ani”
- Greek: “Ανί”
- Greek: “Ανίον”
- Hebrew: “אני”
- Hindi: “एनी”
- Hungarian: “Ani”
- Igbo: “Ani”
- Indonesian: “Ani, Turki”
- Italian: “Ani (Turchia)”
- Italian: “Ani”
- Japanese: “アニ”
- Japanese: “アニ遺跡”
- Kazakh: “Ани”
- Korean: “아니”
- Kurdish: “Anî”
- Latvian: “Ani”
- Lithuanian: “Ani”
- Lithuanian: “Anis”
- Maltese: “Abnicum”
- Maltese: “Ani”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ani (historisk by)”
- Norwegian: “Ani”
- Persian: “آنی (شهر باستانی)”
- Persian: “آنی”
- Polish: “Ani (miasto)”
- Polish: “Ani”
- Portuguese: “Ani”
- Portuguese: “ANI”
- Russian: “Абникум”
- Russian: “Ани”
- Russian: “Аниси”
- Russian: “Оджаклы”
- Russian: “Хнамк”
- Serbian: “Ани”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ani (grad)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ani (Turska)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ani”
- Slovak: “Ani”
- Slovenian: “Ani, Turčija”
- Spanish: “Ani”
- Spanish: “Անի”
- Swedish: “Ani”
- Tajik: “Ани”
- Tatar: “Ани (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Ани”
- Thai: “อานี”
- Turkish: “Ani antik kenti”
- Turkish: “Ani Harabeleri”
- Turkish: “Ani”
- Ukrainian: “Ані”
- Urdu: “آنی”
- Uzbek: “Ani”
- Vietnamese: “Ani”
- Western Armenian: “Անի Քաղաք”
- Western Armenian: “Անի”
- Western Frisian: “Ani”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ani”. Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.