KARS

[s. 385] : A strongly fortified city of Turkey in Asia, historically important, and taken by Ru ia from Turkey in the war of 1877-78. Its population (12,000) is largely Armenian, and it was succe fully worked as an outstation of Erzerum (ABCFM) up to 1879. After the city became Ru ian territory the Evangelical Armenian Church was officially recognized and protected by the government, but the mi ionaries were not allowed to visit it. The permanency and vitality of the mi ionary church at this place has been tested by this experience and it has not failed under the test. KARSHUN LANGUAGE. See Syriac. 385