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- For the abbreviation or acronym ANI, please see ANI.
In Etruscan mythology, Ani was the sky god, perhaps equivalent to the Roman Janus. He lived in the highest level of heaven.
The ani is also a bird, a black variety of cuckoo with a heavy bill that can be either smooth or ridged. Unlike other cuculids, it does not lay its eggs in other birds' nests.
Ani was also a city of medieval Armenia. In the tenth century the town of Ani was expanded into a major city by Ashot III, who made it the capital of Armenia under the Bagratid dynasty. The city was handed over to the Byzantines in 1045, and then occupied by the Seljuk Turks in 1064, getting under White Sheep Turkmen, Black Sheep Turkmen sovereignty later. It was slowly abandoned after the 14th century, being dominated by the Ottoman Empire after 1534 and under the invasion of the Russian Empire from 1878 to 1917. Ani is now about 42 km (26 miles) away from the Turkish province Kars, near the Arpaçay Brook, a branch of the Araks River that constitutes the border between Armenia and Turkey, within Turkish borders. The city now known for its well-preserved ruins of medieval Armenian architecture, although the ruins are threatened by the dynamite blasts at a nearby stone quarry in Armenia.