Erzurum
Erzurum is one of the largest cities in Eastern Anatolia, with a population of about 363,000 in 2023, half that of Erzurum Province. It's at high altitude and has a ski resort.Photo: Atsirlin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 762,000 residents
- Description: city in Turkey
- Also known as: “Ard-ar-Rum”, “Arzan-ar-Rum”, “Carana”, “Erserum”, and “Erzenü’r-Rum”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yakutiye Medrese and Erzurum railway station.
Yakutiye Medrese
Museum
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yakutiye Madrasa is a historical 14th-century Madrasa in Erzurum, Turkey. The madrasa was built in 1310 by order of a local governor of the Ilkhanids, Hoca Yakut, and it is named after him.
Grand Mosque of Erzurum
Mosque
Photo: Eğitmen Mahmut, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Mosque of Erzurum is an historic mosque in Erzurum, Turkey. It is also called "Atabey Mosque" because the Saltukids were referred to as the “Atabey”.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yakutiye and Palandöken.
Yakutiye
Town
Photo: EROL AKBULUT, CC BY 3.0.
Yakutiye is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey. Its area is 945 km2, and its population is 190,373. It covers the central and northern part of the urban area of Erzurum.
Palandöken
Town
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palandöken is a municipality and district of Erzurum Province, Turkey. Its area is 667 km2, and its population is 177,374. It covers the southern part of the urban area of Erzurum.
Erzurum
- Categories: metropolitan municipality in Turkey, big city, and locality
- Location: Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
39.9063° or 39° 54′ 23″ northLongitude
41.2728° or 41° 16′ 22″ eastPopulation
762,000Elevation
1,914 metres (6,280 feet)IATA airport code
ERZUnited Nations Location Code
TR ERZOpen location code
8HF3W74F+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 26486754OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
315368Wikidata ID
Q122803
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Erzurum” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Erzurum”
- Albanian: “Erzurumi”
- Arabic: “أرض روم”
- Arabic: “أرضروم”
- Arabic: “إرزوروم”
- Arabic: “ارزوروم”
- Arabic: “ارض روم”
- Arabic: “ارضروم”
- Arabic: “الأرضروم”
- Armenian: “Էրզրում քաղաք”
- Armenian: “Էրզրում”
- Armenian: “Կարին Karin”
- Armenian: “Կարին”
- Asturian: “Erzurum”
- Azerbaijani: “Ərzurum”
- Bashkir: “Эрзурум”
- Basque: “Erzurum”
- Belarusian: “Эрзурум”
- Bengali: “এরজিুরাম”
- Breton: “Erzurum”
- Bulgarian: “Ерзерум”
- Bulgarian: “Ерзурум”
- Catalan: “Erzerum”
- Catalan: “Erzurum”
- Catalan: “Karin”
- Cebuano: “Erzurum (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Erzurum”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەرزڕۆم”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەرزیڕۆم”
- Chechen: “Эрзурум”
- Chinese: “埃尔祖鲁姆”
- Chinese: “埃爾祖魯姆”
- Czech: “Erzurum”
- Danish: “Erzerum”
- Danish: “Erzurum”
- Danish: “Theodosiopolis”
- Dimli (individual language): “Erzurum”
- Dutch: “Erzurum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ارضروم”
- Esperanto: “Erzurum”
- Estonian: “Erzurum”
- Finnish: “Erzurum”
- Finnish: “Theodosiopolis”
- French: “Erzeroum”
- French: “Erzéroum”
- French: “Erzurum”
- French: “Theodosioupolis”
- Gagauz: “Erzurum”
- Georgian: “ერზურუმი”
- Georgian: “კარნუ-ქალაქი”
- German: “Erzerum”
- German: “Erzurum”
- German: “Theodosiopolis”
- Gilaki: “أرزرۊم”
- Greek: “Ερζερούμ”
- Greek: “Θεοδοσιούπολη”
- Greek: “Θεοδοσιούπολις”
- Gujarati: “એરઝુરૂમ”
- Hebrew: “ארזורום”
- Hebrew: “ארזן אל-רום”
- Hebrew: “תאודוסיופוליס”
- Hindi: “एर्ज़ुरुम”
- Hungarian: “Erzurum”
- Indonesian: “Erzurum”
- Irish: “Erzurum”
- Italian: “Erzerum”
- Italian: “Erzurum”
- Italian: “Teodosiopoli”
- Japanese: “エルズルム”
- Kannada: “ಎರ್ಝುರಂ”
- Kazakh: “Érzwrwm”
- Kazakh: “Ерзурум”
- Kazakh: “Эрзурум”
- Kazakh: “ەرزۋرۋم”
- Kinyarwanda: “Erzurum”
- Korean: “에르주룸”
- Korean: “에르주름”
- Kurdish: “Erzerom”
- Kurdish: “Erzerûm”
- Kurdish: “Erzirom”
- Kurdish: “Erzîrom”
- Kurdish: “Erzirum”
- Kurdish: “Erzurum”
- Kurdish: “Erzûrûm”
- Kurdish: “ئەرزیرۆم”
- Lak: “Эрзурум”
- Latvian: “Erzuruma”
- Lithuanian: “Erzurumas”
- Macedonian: “Ерзурум”
- Malay: “Erzurum”
- Marathi: “एरझरूम”
- Mazanderani: “ارزروم”
- Minangkabau: “Erzurum”
- Nauru: “Erzurum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Erzurum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erzurum”
- Norwegian: “Erzurum”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Erzurum”
- Ossetian: “Арзрум”
- Ossetian: “Эрзерум”
- Ossetian: “Эрзурум”
- Persian: “ارز روم”
- Persian: “ارزروم”
- Persian: “ارزن الروم”
- Persian: “ارزنالروم”
- Persian: “ارزنةالروم”
- Persian: “ارزنه الروم”
- Persian: “ارزنهٔ الروم”
- Persian: “ارزنهالروم”
- Persian: “ارزنهالروم”
- Persian: “ارض روم”
- Persian: “ارضروم”
- Polish: “Erzurum”
- Portuguese: “Arzen”
- Portuguese: “Erzurum”
- Portuguese: “Kalikala”
- Portuguese: “Teodosiópolis”
- Portuguese: “Theodosiopolis”
- Pushto: “ارز روم”
- Romanian: “Erzurum”
- Russian: “Арзрум”
- Russian: “Арзурум”
- Russian: “Феодосиополь”
- Russian: “Эрзерум”
- Russian: “Эрзрум”
- Russian: “Эрзурум”
- Scots: “Erzurum”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Erzurum”
- Serbian: “Erzurum”
- Serbian: “Ерзурум”
- Serbian: “Карин” (historical)
- Serbo-Croatian: “Erzurum”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Theodosiopolis”
- Silesian: “Erzurum”
- Sinhala: “එර්සුරුම්”
- Slovak: “Erzurum”
- Slovenian: “Erzurum”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارزروم”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارضروم”
- Spanish: “Erzurum”
- Swahili: “Erzurum”
- Swahili: “Jimbo la Erzurum”
- Swedish: “Arzen”
- Swedish: “Arzrum”
- Swedish: “Erzerum”
- Swedish: “Erzurum”
- Swedish: “Theodosiopolis”
- Swedish: “Theodosiupolis”
- Tajik: “Арзурум”
- Tajik: “Эрзурум”
- Talysh: “Ərzurum”
- Tamil: “ஏற்சரும்”
- Tatar: “Әрзерүм”
- Tatar: “Эрзурум”
- Telugu: “ఎర్జూరం”
- Thai: “Erzerum”
- Thai: “Erzurum”
- Thai: “Theodosiopolis”
- Thai: “ธีโอโดซิโอโพลิส”
- Thai: “เอร์ซูรุม”
- Thai: “แอร์ซูรุม”
- Turkish: “Erzurum”
- Turkmen: “Arzyrum”
- Twi: “Erzurum”
- Udmurt: “Эрзурум”
- Ukrainian: “Ерзурум”
- Urdu: “ارض روم”
- Uzbek: “Arzirum”
- Venetian: “Erzurum”
- Vietnamese: “Erzurum”
- Waray (Philippines): “Erzurum”
- Welsh: “Erzurum”
- Western Armenian: “Էրզրում”
- Western Armenian: “Կարին”
- Western Mari: “Эрзурум”
- Western Panjabi: “ارض روم”
- Wu Chinese: “埃尔祖鲁姆”
- Yue Chinese: “埃爾祖魯姆”
- “Erzurum”
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