Iğdır

Iğdır (pronounced [ˈɯɰdɯɾ]; Armenian: Իգդիր, Igdir, also Ցոլակերտ, Tsolakert, after the ancient city nearby; Azerbaijani: İğdır, Idir; Kurdish: Îdir, Idir) is the capital of Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey, and borders Armenia, Azerbaijan (Nakhchivan) and Iran. The border with Armenia is formed by the Aras River. Turkey's highest mountain, Ağrı Dağı, (the Biblical Mount Ararat) is in Iğdır province, but much of the land is a wide plain far below the mountain. The area's name came from "Iğdır Bey", the oldest son of Cengiz Alp who was one of six sons of Oghuz Han belonging to internal Oghuz three arrows branch considered to be the 21st of the 24 Oghuz branches. They spread throughout Anatolia and there are towns and...