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Ani
Ani is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey’s province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia. According to Wikip[edia it was indeed known as the City of a Thousand and One Churches.
Established as the capital of Armenia, in 962, it gradually declined over centuries until the site was entirely abandoned by 1735—when the last monks left the monastery in the Virgin’s Fortress or Kizkale.
Clearly from the picture, there is very little standing in Ani, and it has probably been that way for centuries.