Archaeological site Islam
Ani
آني ar آنی (شهر باستانی) fa
Ruined medieval Armenian city in Kars, Turkey, and UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Dated until 1319 CE
- Also called Abnicum
Within the site
Inside Ani
3 recorded places within the site, from their own records.
What this means
A place listed here names this site as its whole or its location in its own record; the build reads that from the place’s end, so the row is computed rather than stated by the site. It does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship, that its parts were in use at the same time, or that these are all the places it held.
Placed in these collections by the 3 places recorded in it or its districts: Computed
- Islam 2 of 3
- Christianity 2 of 3
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated until 1319 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Ani, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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5.0 km awayHoromos
ruins of Armenian monastery in Turkey -
7.5 km awayBagnayr monastery
ruins of Armenian monastery in Kars, Turkey -
8.1 km awayYererouk
cultural heritage monument of Armenia -
20 km awayTekor Basilica
church building in Kars Province, Turkey -
22 km awayKhtzkonk Monastery
Armenian monastery in Turkey -
25 km awayHoly Saviour's monastery of Yerazgavors
Armenian monastery in Turkey -
27 km awayChurch of St. John
cultural heritage monument of Armenia -
29 km awayCathedral of Talin
cultural heritage monument of Armenia
Connections
How Ani connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
6 statements on this record
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 2 collection memberships and 3 recorded places within it. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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