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The city of Karin, the center of the Karno province of the High-Hayk world, is located on the left side of the Euphrates river, on the northwestern slopes of the Aitsptkunk mountain.
Karin is an ancient settlement founded in BC. In the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium
Its role and significance began to increase especially after the first division of Hayasaan in 387, as the most important fortress city on the border of the Byzantine part.
By the order of Byzantine emperor Theodos II (408 - 450), the general Anatole,
In 431, he built new fortifications in Karin and named the city Theodosoupolis after the emperor.
The fortifications and defensive buildings of the city were expanded and rebuilt during Anastas I (491-518) and especially Justinian I (527-565).
In the 7th - 9th centuries, Karin was located in the now Byzantine, now Arab part. In that period, Karin is mentioned by Kalikala and other names very often in Arabic sources as well.
After the establishment of the Bagratuni kingdom in Armenia in 885, Karin also became part of the Armenian state. In 949, however, the Byzantines took it from the Armenians again, in 1049, when the Seljuk-Turks completely destroyed the city of Artsn, its surviving inhabitants came and settled in Karin and called it Artsn after their hometown, from which the Turkish-Arab Arzn Rum of Karin arose. (i.e. the names Arzn of the Romans), Arzrum, Erzrum.
The Seljuk-Turks were expelled from here for a short time by the Zakarians, and in 1242 the city came under the rule of the Mongol-Tatars.
In the 15th century, Karin was successively ruled by the Karakoyunlu and Agkoyunlu tribes, and in 1514 it was conquered by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I.
In the 19th - 20th centuries, Russian troops liberated the city from the Turks three times and returned it three times. In 1829, according to the peace treaty of Adrianople, when Karin was returned to the Turks, thousands of Armenians left the city with the Russian troops and settled in the regions of Akhaltskha, Akhalkalaki, Lori, Pambak.
After the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-78, on September 7, when the city was abandoned again, 2000 families migrated from there to Transcaucasia.

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