Ani, known as the city of a 1001 churches, is merely a touristic site today but was once a metropolis which rivaled Constantinople, Cairo or Baghdad as a center of culture and enterprise and had close to 200,000 inhabitants. It was the capital of the Armenian Bagratun kingdom in the 900's, but today is located within the borders of Turkey, although right on the Armenian/Turkish border and about 45 minutes away from Kars (see the Kars gallery).