Pasinler

Pasinler or Basiani, is a town in Erzurum Province, Turkey on the Aras River. It is found 40 kilometers east of the city of Erzurum and is the site of Hasankale Castle. It was the origination of the Ottoman writer Nefi. The old name "Hasankale" could be founded on the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Uzun Hasan or upon Hasan the legislative head of the locale during the 1330s or after Kucuk Hasan, grandson of Coban, who assaulted the town in 1340. The name Pasinler is gotten from antiquated Colchis clans called Phasians. The name of this clan appears to have made due in contemporary local toponyms Georgian Basiani, Greek Phasiane, Armenian Basean and Turkish Pasin. Based upon ceramics discovers, Pasinler was a piece of the Kingdom of Urartu amid the Iron Age.
Amid the 19^th century, a few Russo-Ottoman wars occurred in this area and had as an outcome that numerous Armenians emigrated from this locale towards Russian held domain in Transcaucasia. At the point when World War broke out the Russians progressed to the plain of Pasinler yet immediately withdrew together with a large number of the neighborhood Armenian populace, somewhere in the range of 4,000 remained and were extradited. Somewhere in the range of 1915 and 1917 it was possessed by Russia and after that held by the Armenians, who carried out enemy of Muslim barbarities in the area. Amid World War I a few Armenians clearly broke the tombstones of some old Islamic graves in Avnik. The Turkish armed force recaptured control of the town on 13 March 1918.