Iğdır
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Iğdır (Armenian: Տսոլակերտ (Latin transliteration: Tsolakert); Kurdish: Îdir; Azeri: İğdır; Russian: Игдир) is the capital city of Iğdır Province in Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey, close to the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
The city of Iğdır sits on a plain at a lower altitude than most of Turkey's eastern provinces. This allows agricultural production including apples, tomatoes, sugar beet and most famously cotton and apricots, even watermelons.
With this agriculture the town is livelier and wealthier than its neighbouring in the generally impoverished east of Turkey. There are many cafes and resaturants. The best-known dish is an oily meat stew called bozbaş.
[edit] Places of interest
- The 13th century caravanserai of the Seljuk Turks, 25km south-west of the city.
- Sürmeli castle. 25km west of the city, on the road to Tuzluca.
[edit] Twin cities
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