Alanbaşı, Yusufeli
Alanbaşı | |
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  Alanbaşı Location within Turkey | |
| Coordinates: 40°41′21″N 41°24′40″E / 40.6893°N 41.4111°E | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Artvin |
| District | Yusufeli |
| Elevation | 1,276 m (4,186 ft) |
| Population (2021) | 402 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
| Postal code | 08820 |
| Area code | 0466 |
Alanbaşı is a village in the Yusufeli District, Artvin Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 402 (2021).[2]
History
The former name of Alanbaşı is Kiskim or Kiskimi. It appears in Georgian sources as Kiskimi (კისკიმი), and in a 1574 Ottoman cadastral register (tahrir defteri) and in the Ottoman cebe defteri (1694–1732) as Kiskim (كسكم).[3]: 99 [4] On an 1854 Kiepert map it is written as "Gisgim".[5] Kiskim was also the former name of an Ottoman sanjak and of the Yusufeli district (kaza).[6]
Kiskim lies in Tao, one of the regions that made up Georgia in the Middle Ages; the Ottomans took the region and the village from the Georgians in the mid-16th century. The Kiskimi Chapel, located in the village's Kansasi quarter and dated to the 9th century during the Georgian kingdom period, indicates that Kiskim was an old settlement.[7]
During the Ottoman cadastral survey of 1574, Kiskim was one of the villages of the Pertekrek nahiye of the Tortum sanjak, within the Çıldır Eyalet. At that time it was a large settlement of 256 Christian households. Heva—today a quarter of Kiskim village known as "Bağlık" or "Hav Bağları"—was then a separate village.[3]: 100
In the cebe defteri of the Çıldır Eyalet covering 1694–1732, the village appears as Kiskim (كسكم). Located in the Pertekrek liva, its revenue in AH 1124 (1712/1713) was 202,240 akçe and was assigned as a has to Hasan Bey, mirliva of Pertekrek and Nisf-i Livane. In AH 1142 (1729/1730) its revenue was recorded as 519,390 akçe and assigned as a has to İbrahim Bey, mirliva of Pertekrek and Nisf-i Livane.[4]
In the census of 1835—when the Ottoman administration recorded only the male population for conscription and taxation—Kiskim was one of the villages of the Kiskim sanjak. Recorded as "Nefs-i Kiskim," the village had 297 men in 117 households; adding an equal number of women, its population is estimated at 594. The Kiskim sanjak itself comprised 21 villages, with 3,116 men in 1,173 households, suggesting a total population of about 6,232.[3]: 100
In the 1928 Ottoman village list, the village was recorded as Keskim/Kiskim (كسكیم), attached to the central nahiye of the Yusufeli district of Artvin Province.[8] In the 1940 general census, recorded as "Kıskim," it held the same administrative position within Çoruh Province, with a population of 812.[9] Because Kiskim or Keskim was not Turkish, the village's name was changed to Alanbaşı in 1959 under Law No. 7267.[10] In the 1965 general census, the population of Alanbaşı was 998, of whom 515 were literate.[11]
Hav Bağları
Formerly a village in its own right, Hevi or Heva is today a quarter of Alanbaşı known as "Bağlık" or "Hav Bağları." The old name Hevi (ხევი) or Heva (ხევა) derives from the Georgian word meaning "stream" or "valley."[12] Hevi is also the name of a historical region in Georgia. The settlement on the bank of the Çoruh River was written as "Hav" (خاو) in an early Ottoman record.[13]
According to the Ottoman cadastral register of 1555, Hevi was a village of the Pertekrek sanjak with 4 Christian households, where wheat, barley, millet, grapes, fruit, cotton and beans were cultivated, alongside market gardening, beekeeping and chestnut growing.[13] In the 1574 Ottoman detailed register Defter-i Mufassal-i Vilayet-i Gürcistan, it appears as "Heva," attached to the Pertekrek nahiye of the Tortum sanjak, with 17 households.[3]: 100 The villagers later converted to Islam, and in a 1652 cizye register all were recorded as Muslim. In the 1848 population register of Erzurum Province, Hav or Hevi was recorded not as a separate village but as a quarter of Kiskim.[13]
Historic structures
Within Alanbaşı there are two churches, the remains of two castles, and a cave. One of the two churches, the Kiskimi Chapel, dates from the 9th century yet survives largely intact. A second church, located 1 km south of the village at a place the villagers call "Ançirtik," is a small single-naved structure; built of roughly hewn stone with lime mortar, its north-western part survives. Of the two castles, the Kiskimi Castle is thought, from its position and size, to have served mainly as a watchpost in the Middle Ages. The other castle stands on a ridge outside the settlement; built of roughly hewn stone and lime mortar, its surviving walls reach 2 metres in height, and the villagers regard the structure as a church.[14][3]: 206–207
Geography
The village is 144 km from the provincial centre of Artvin and 39 km from the district centre of Yusufeli.[15]
Population
| 2021 | 402[16] |
| 2020 | 405[16] |
| 2019 | 396[16] |
| 2018 | 400[16] |
| 2017 | 391[16] |
| 2016 | 416[16] |
| 2015 | 438[16] |
| 2014 | 434[16] |
| 2013 | 454[16] |
| 2012 | 446[16] |
| 2011 | 465[16] |
| 2010 | 441[16] |
| 2009 | 427[16] |
| 2008 | 427[16] |
| 2007 | 390[16] |
| 2000 | 629[15] |
| 1990 | 783[15] |
| 1985 | 949[15] |
References
- ↑ Köy Archived 6 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ↑ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Tao (in Georgian). Mamia Pağava, Meri Tsintsadze, Maia Baramidze, Malhaz Çoharadze, Tina Şioşvili, Ramaz Halvaşi, Nugzar Mgeladze, Zaza Şaşikadze, Merab Halvaşi, Cimşer Çhvimiani, Cemal Karalidze. Batumi. 2020. ISBN 978-9941-25-828-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - 1 2 Defter-i Caba-i Eyalet-i Çıldır 1694-1732 (in Georgian). ed. Tsisana Abuladze. Tbilisi. 1979. No. 337, 840.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ "1854 Kiepert Map of the Caucasus, Armenia, Kurdistan, and Azerbaijan". Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ↑ Artvinli, Taner (2013). Artvin Yer Adları Sözlüğü (in Turkish). p. 161. ISBN 978-605-5708-85-6.
- ↑ Bayram, Fahriye; Yazar, Turgay (2008). "Artvin, Erzurum, Ardahan İli ve İlçelerinde Gürcü Mimarisi Yüzey Araştırması – 2006". 25. Araştırma Toplantısı Sonuçları (PDF) (in Turkish). Vol. 1. Ankara. p. 265. ISBN 978-975-17-3315-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Son Teşkilat-i Mülkiyede Köylerimizin Adları (in Ottoman Turkish). Istanbul. 1928.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ 1940 Genel Nüfus Sayımı, Ankara, 1946, p. 170.
- ↑ "Köylerimiz" (in Turkish). Ankara: Ministry of the Interior. 1968. p. 704. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ↑ 1965 Genel Nüfus Sayımı, Ankara, 1968, p. 90.
- ↑ "ხევი". A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary. London. 2006. ISBN 0-9535878-3-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 1 2 3 Artvinli, Taner (2013). Yusufeli Külliyâtı (in Turkish). Vol. 1. Istanbul. p. 309. ISBN 978-605-86248-1-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ 2016 Yılı Tao-Klarceti Tarihi Eserleri Araştırma Gezisi Sonuçları (in Georgian). Tbilisi. 2017. pp. 85–87. ISBN 978-9941-9470-8-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 1 2 3 4 "Alanbaşı Köyü" (in Turkish). YerelNet.org.tr. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Artvin Yusufeli Alanbaşı Köy Nüfusu" (in Turkish). Nufusune.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
