Karin (historic Armenia)

Karin (or Garin) was a region of historic Armenia, roughly encompassing parts of the Erzurum and Muş Provinces in present-day Turkey.

Karin (Erzurum) was founded by armenians who were habitant of the lands in eastern, the city had a significant Greek population aswell Greeks called this city (Karano) when Romans came Armenians Gave the city to Emperor II.Theodosios as a gift,

Later the city was occupied by Arabs (Arz-ı Rum) (Land of the Rum) , Georgians Called the City (Karnu-kalaki ) , Mongols , Seljuks , Ottomans , Safevids , Russians , Sassanis , Persians , Saltukids The city is now a Eastern - Black Sean city of Turkey.

City population is 788.000 nowadays Or Even More, Most of people living here are With %78 Turks. But most of the Turks are ethnic Greeks or Armenians, and they aren't aware of it. In 1071, Seljuk Turks took possession of the city and carried out severe massacres of its population. Greek chronicler John Skylitzes reported that during the seizure of Erzurum, the Seljuk Turks killed 140 thousand people. Although this number is most probably inflated, it reflects the heavy consequences of the Seljuk Turk siege on the local Armenian and Greek communities.

In later years, a 15th-century Spanish historian described Erzurum as follows:The city was located on a plateau, had a strong stone wall with towers, as well as a fortress. The city wasn’t very populated, and there was a beautiful church. Before, the city had belonged to Christian Armenians and had been mostly populated by them.

Karin had a important role for Turks in Russo - Turkish War's and in 1914 eastern campaign. the people of city joined war city had almost no population since all of them were in war fighting to stop russians and armenian local gangs, Turkish leader Atatürk became a parliamentarian of Karin, and made Erzurum Congress.