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Posof
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Posof
Total population
6,790
Demographic figures from TurkStat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Posof is a town in Ardahan Province of Turkey, in the far east of the country, 75 km from the city of Ardahan and near the border with Georgia. It is located in the historical region of Samtskhe. It is the administrative centre of the Posof District. Its population is 2,106 (2021).
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History
Dighviri village, which formed the basis of the town of Posof, was a Georgian settlement when the Ottomans captured it from the Georgians. The inhabitants of the village were recorded as Turk in the 1886 Russian census. When Dighviri village became the administrative centre of the town of Posof in 1929, its name was also changed to Posof. In the 1940 general census, only 1,330 people lived in the town of Posof. By 1965, the town's population had risen to 1,540, of whom 818 were literate.
Geography
Posof is high in the mountains near the source of the River Çoruh, much of the district is pine forest. The town consists of the quarters Merkez and Doğrular.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Notable people from here
Nearby places in Ardahan
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- Hanak19.7 mi away · pop. 9,019
- Ardahan27.5 mi away · pop. 96,161
- Çıldır33.8 mi away · pop. 9,539
- Göle49.8 mi away · pop. 25,679
- Otranto1266.5 mi away · pop. 5,282
- Torre dell'Orso1267.9 mi away
- Porto Badisco1267.9 mi away
- Roca1267.9 mi away
- San Foca1268.8 mi away
- Uggiano la Chiesa1269.3 mi away · pop. 4,341
- Torre Specchia Ruggeri1269.9 mi away
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Books about Posof
Search results from Open Library.
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Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image