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Global Heritage Fund saving cultural heritage in Kars
06.12.2008 13:44 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Global Heritage Fund has launched on its website a
video telling about Kars.

An ancient Armenian capital, now part of Turkey in the heart of the
South Caucasus region, Kars alternately came under Byzantine, Turkish,
Georgian, Russian, and Armenian control. Until recently, the Kars
Historic District was a poor squatter settlement, a backwater without
city services such as sewage, waste management and utilities.

Global Heritage Fund is working with the Kars Municipality, the
Turkish Government, and others in eastern Anatolia to mix historic
preservation and urban revitalization with community development and
sustainable tourism.