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Academy of Athens to celebrate the achievements and contributions of the Greek Diaspora

Greek City Times 02 Nov 2021
... and (later) the Russian province of Kars in the South Caucasus ... Pontic Greeks are Greek-speaking communities originating in the Black Sea region, particularly from the Trebizond region, the Pontic Alps, eastern Anatolia, Georgia, and the former Russian south-Caucasus Kars Oblast.
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Turkish city eagerly awaits Armenian border reopening

EurasiaNet 30 Aug 2021
Kars, in the far northeastern corner of Turkey, lies a mere 30 miles from Armenia ... Its central streets are lined with dozens of elegant ashy-black stone buildings, built by the Russian empire when it ruled the area as the Kars Oblast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ... That all ground to a halt in 1993 and Kars’s economy began to dry up.
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History of World War I and Its Aftermath: The Ludendorff Dictatorship’s Expansionist Policies in Europe

GlobalResearch 28 Nov 2020
Shortly before midday on 9 November 1923, around 3,000 far-right insurgents began marching on Munich, Germany’s second largest city in the south of the country ... They marched ... The other policemen followed suit ... The American historian and war correspondent William L ... Also stripped from the Kremlin were the Black Sea port of Batumi and Kars Oblast.
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