Patnos
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Patnos (Armenian: Բադնոց (Latin transliteration: Badnoc‘ or Patnoc‘)) is a district of Ağrı Province of Turkey on a plain surrounded by high mountains including Süphan, watered by tributaries of the Murat River. 82km south of the city of Ağrı on the road to Van.
The plain has been settled since at least 1300BC and this was a centre of Urartu civilisation. there are a number of places of historical interst around Patnos, including the castle of Aznavur Tepe, an impressive Urartu building.
Today Patnos is a small town in an impoverished rural area.
 Patnos in Ağrı Province (in the East Anatolia region) of Turkey |
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| Urban districts | Ağrı |    |
| Rural districts | Diyadin - Doğubeyazıt - Eleşkirt - Hamur - Patnos - Taşlıçay - Tutak | |
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| Central Anatolia | ||
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| Marmara | ||
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