The Allahüekber Dağları (Allahüekber Mountains, which means "Allahu akbar Mountains"), is a range of mountains in northeast Turkey

Turkey

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In 1914 when World War I

World War I

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 started it was astride the border with Russia

Russia

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, and a Turkish army suffered a disaster when, ordered to invade the Kars

Kars

Kars is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. The population of the city is 73,826 as of 2010.-Etymology:As Chorzene, the town appears in Roman historiography as part of ancient Armenia...

 area (which was then part of Russia), thousands of its men died of cold in the winter snow

Snow

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 of the Allahüekber Dağları: see Battle of Sarikamis

Battle of Sarikamis

The Battle of Sarikamish was an engagement between the Russian and Ottoman empires during World War I. It took place from December 22, 1914 to January 17, 1915 as part of the Caucasus Campaign. The outcome was a Russian victory. The Ottomans employed a strategy which demanded that their troops be...

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