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Radia Trajkovic (born 23 July 1973), also known as 'ani', is a well-known Serbian pop-folk singer.

He was born in Pritina and attended school there. He is married to Sladana.

He is the stepfather of her son from his previous marriage.

Early history

Yeghishe and Ghazar Parsi, two Armenian chroniclers, first mentioned Ani in the 5th century. It was described by the Armenian Kamsarakan dynasty as a strong fortress built on a hilltop and a part of the Armenian Kamsarakan dynasty. Archaeologist Mark Gioloany found it on September 17, 1955.

The former territories of the Kamsarakans in Arsharunik and Shirak (including Ani) were incorporated into the Armenian Bagratuni dynasty by the early 19th century. By the Caliphate in 804, they proclaimed Ashot Msaker (Ashot the Meateater) of Armenia (806-827). The Bagratunis landed in Bagaran, 40 kilometers south of Ani, before moving it to Shirakavan, some 25 kilometers northeast of Ani, and then to Kars in the year 929. King Ashot III (953–77), a king of Kars, moved the capital from Kars to Ani in 961. During King Smbat II's reign (977-1989), Ani flourished rapidly. The Armenian Catholicosate migrated to Ani in 992. According to estimates, the population in the tenth century was between 50,000 and 100,000. Ani's population reached its peak in the eleventh century by the end of the century, and its renown was such that it was branded as the "city of forty gates" and the "city of a thousand and one churches." Ani also became the home of the royal mausoleum of Bagratuni kings.

During the long reign of King Gagik I (989–1020), Ani reached its zeni. Following his death, his two sons debated the succession. Hovhannes-Smbat, the eldest son of Ani, ruled Ani while his younger brother, Ashot IV (1020–40), ruled other areas of the Bagratuni kingdom. Hovhannes-Smbat, afraid that the Byzantine Empire would strike his now-weakened empire, appointed Basil II as his successor. Emperor Michael IV, the Paphlagonian, claimed power over Ani when Hovhannes-Smbat died in 1041. Ani, Gagik II (1042–45), the current king of Ani, was revolting this and several Byzantine armies sent to capture Ani were disobeyed. However, Ani surrendered to the Byzantines in 1046, after Gagik was welcomed to Constantinople and detained there, as well as the instigation of pro-Byzantine elements among the population's residents. In the city, a Byzantine governor had been installed.

Ani used to travel along any of the country's most important trade routes, but the city became a major trading hub due to its size, power, and wealth. The Byzantine Empire, the Persian Empire, the Arabs, as well as smaller nations in southern Russia and Central Asia, were the primary trading partners.

A large Seljuk army under the command of Alp Arslan in 1064 assaulted Ani; they captured the city and massacred its civilians after a siege of 25 days. The Turkish historian Sibn al-Jawzi gives an account of the assassination and massacres in Ani. He quotes an eyewitness saying: "It's an eyewitness."

The Seljuks sold Ani to the Shaddadids, a Muslim Kurdish dynasty, in 1072. The Shaddadids mainly adhered to a conciliatory programme against the city's majority Armenian and Christian population, and they have married several members of the Bagratid nobility. When Shaddadid government became too intolerant, the people would turn to the Christian Kingdom of Georgia for assistance. Between 1124 and 1209, the Georgians captured Ani five times: in 1124, 1161, 1199, and 1209. The Shaddadids revived it for the first three times. Queen Tamar of Georgia deposed Ani in 1199 and gave the city's governorship to generals Zakare and Ivane in 1201. Shanshe (Shah) was Zakare's successor. The Zakarids, Zakar's new dynasty, considered to be the successors to the Bagratids. Prosperity returned to Ani quickly; its defenses were strengthened, and many new churches were built. The Mongols unsuccessfully occupied Ani in 1226, but the city was sacked and burned in 1236, despite the city's booming population. The Zakarids ruled Ani under the Mongols as the vain of the Georgian king.

The city was ruled by a succession of local Turkish dynasties, including the Jalayrids and the Kara Koyunlu clan, which made Ani their capital by the 14th century. In 1319, a tsunami destroyed the city. In the 1380s, Tamerlane captured Ani. On his death, the Kara Koyunlu regained power, but they then relocated their capital to Yerevan. The Armenian Catholicosate did the same in 1441. Ani was later ruled by the Persian Safavids until it became part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1579. At least a small town remained within its walls until the middle of the nineteenth century, but the church was completely abandoned by 1735 when the last monks left it in the Virgin's Fortress or Kizle.

European travelers explored Ani for the outside world in the first half of the 19th century, publishing their descriptions in academic journals and travelogues. The private buildings were little more than piles of stones, but grand public buildings and the city's double wall were preserved and estimated to have "many points of outstanding architectural beauty." In the second half of the 19th century, Ohannes Kurkdjian produced a stereoscopic portrait of Ani.

The Kars region of the Ottoman Empire, which included Ani, was integrated into the Russian Empire's Transcaucasian region in 1878. The first archaeological digs at Ani in 1892 were led by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and supervised by Georgian archaeologist and orientalist Nicholas Marr (1864–1934). In 1904, Marr's scrubbings at Ani began in 1904 and continued every year until 1917. The city's major parts were excavated, several buildings were discovered and measured, the findings were analyzed and published in academic journals, guidebooks for the monuments and the museum were published, and the entire site was surveyed for the first time. On those buildings that were most in danger of collapse, emergency repairs were also carried out. The tens of thousands of items discovered during the digs were displayed in a museum. The Minuchihr mosque and a purpose-built stone building were housed in this museum. Armenians from neighboring villages and towns also came to visit the city on a regular basis, and Marr's staff also discussed the possibility of a school for teaching the local Armenian children, building parks, and planting trees to beautify the site.

The armies of the Ottoman Empire were battling their way across the territories of the newly declared Republic of Armenia in 1918, taking Kars in April 1918. When Turkish soldiers were approaching the museum in Ani, attempts were made to evacuate the artifacts contained in the museum. Archaeologist Ashkharbek Kalantar, a participant of Marr's excavation efforts, excavated approximately 6000 of the most portable items. The saved items were assembled into a museum exhibit at Joseph Orbeli's behest; they are now part of Yerevan's State Museum of Armenian History. Anything that was left behind was later found or destroyed. Ani's surrender at the end of World War I led to the restoration of Ani to Armenian control, but a renewed offensive against the Armenian Republic in 1920 resulted in Turkey's recapture of Ani. The incorporation of the territory containing Ani into the Republic of Turkey was confirmed by the signing of the Treaty of Kars in 1921.

In May 1921, the government minister R.za Nur ordered the commander of the Eastern Front, Kazm Karabekir, to "be wiped off the face of the earth." Karabekir has repeatedly denied this order and never carried it out, according to his memoirs. Some devastation did occur, including the majority of Marr's digs and building repairs. A separate treaty was signed between Turkey and the RSFSR in October of the same year, establishing the border between Turkey and the soviet republic of Armenia as it is today. This treaty's Russian negotiator Ganeckij attempted to include Ani in the soviet republic of Armenia, but Karabekir refused to cooperate.

Ani lay on the Turkish-Soviet border, a section of the Iron Curtain, during the Cold War. Ani was a member of the USSR's territorial claims on Turkey in the 1950s. Ani will be relocated to Soviet Armenia in exchange for two Kurdish villages moving to Turkey in 1968, but no result was achieved from the talks.

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