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Ani

The 'city of a thousand and one churches', a ruined Armenian capital on the Turkish border.

Dated events and their evidence

• 961 CE mainstream
  becomes the capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom source
• 1001 CE mainstream
  the great cathedral of Ani completed source
• 1319 CE mainstream
  an earthquake and shifting trade routes empty the city source

Where

40.5080° N, 43.5730° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani

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