Patnos (Armenian: Բադնոց, Latin transliteration: Badnoc‘ or Patnoc‘, Kurdish: Panos[2]) is a city of Ağrı Province of Turkey on a plain surrounded by high mountains including Süphan, watered by tributaries of the Murat River.
It is 82 km south of the city of Ağrı on the road to Van.
[4] The plain has been settled since at least 1300BC and this was a centre of the Urartu civilisation.
The city has many historical ruins from Urartian period.
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