Eleşkirt is a town and district of Ağrı Province in Turkey. Its name is a transference from Alashkert , the valley's former administrative centre but now a village known as Toprakkale. It was known as Vagharshakert in medieval sources.
At the time of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 approximately half of the population consisted of Armenians and the rest of Kurds and Turks.
Eleşkirt is a small town on a plain surrounded by high mountains, that has been occupied since the kingdom of the Urartu, as can be seen from:
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