Akyaka

Akyaka, in north-eastern Kars, has a 52-km border with Armenia; Kars's provincial centre lies to its south and west, and Arpaçay district to its north. Formerly known as Şöregel and then Kızılçakçak, it came under Ottoman rule in 1534, was under Russian administration for about four decades after the 1877-78 Ottoman-Russian War, was retaken by Turkish forces on 30 October 1920, and took its present name in 1961.