Meydancık, Şavşat

Meydancık
Village
Meydancık is located in Turkey
Meydancık
Meydancık
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 41°24′42″N 42°14′50″E / 41.41167°N 42.24722°E / 41.41167; 42.24722
CountryTurkey
ProvinceArtvin
DistrictŞavşat
Population
 (2021)
382
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)

Meydancık (original Georgian name დიობანი, Diobani) is a village in Imerkhevi in Şavşat District, Artvin Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 382 (2021).[2] Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).[3] Meydancık is the official name given by Turkish authorities in 1925, it literally means "the small square / field".

Name

The former name of Meydancık village was Diobani. The toponym is Georgian in origin (დიობანი) and means "large place".[4] In Turkish the name entered as Diyoban. The 1835 Ottoman population register and a 1927 source on Artvin vilayet both record the village as Diyoban (دییوبان).[5][6]

Meydancık is also a name of vicinity which includes thirteen villages:

  • Maden (Badzgireti)
  • Demirci (Daba)
  • Dereiçi (Dasamoba)
  • Erikli (Agara)
  • Çukur (Chikhori)
  • Sebzeli (Jvariskhevi)
  • Çağlayan (Khevtsvirili)
  • Çağlıpınar (Khokhlevi)
  • Yeşilce (Manatba)
  • Oba (Ube)
  • Dutlu (Surevani)
  • Yağlı (Zakieti)
  • Tepebaşı (Ziosi)

History

Diobani was one of the villages of Şavşat, a region in southwestern historical Georgia. The Ottomans took this area from the Georgians in the mid-16th century. The village, a Georgian settlement, was recorded as Georgian in both the 1886 and 1922 population counts.[7][8]

In the 1835 Ottoman register of Muslim male population, Diyoban was recorded as one of the villages of the İmerhev area of Çıldır District. The register, compiled for tax and conscription purposes, lists 127 men in 44 households; assuming an equal number of women, the total population can be estimated at 254.[9]

Following the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and the Treaty of Berlin (1878), the village was ceded by the Ottomans to the Russian Empire, which registered it as Dioban (Диобанъ). It became part of the Şavşet-İmerhevi subdistrict of Artvin Okrug. In 1886 the population was 527, all Georgians, living in 72 households. The settlement then consisted of six hamlets: Abnadze, Zialidze, Zikrieti, Koklidze, Kumaşidze, and Çir-ogli (Çiradze).[7] Georgian historian Zakaria Çiçinadze visited Şavşeti in the 1890s and counted Diobani among the Georgian-speaking villages of the İmerhev region, noting the remains of a church on a nearby hill. He also recorded that 20 households had emigrated to Ottoman territory before the 1886 census.[10][11]

During World War I, after the Russian withdrawal, Diobani became part of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. By the Treaty of Moscow (1920) Soviet Russia recognized Artvin, including Diobani, as Georgian territory, but following the Red Army invasion of Georgia and the Treaty of Moscow (1921) it was ceded to Turkey.[12][13]

In the 1922 census conducted in Artvin liva, Diyoban was recorded as a village of the İmerhev subdistrict of Şavşat, with 699 residents in 103 households, all listed as Georgian.[8] Because the name Diobani/Diyoban was not Turkish, it was changed in 1925 to Meydancık.[14] In the 1940 general census Meydancık was listed in Çoruh Province's Şavşat district, with a population of 1,065. By 1965 it had grown to 1,301, with 580 literates recorded. At that time Meydancık was the center of a subdistrict of the same name, which included 14 villages with a combined population of 10,039.[15]

In 1993 Meydancık (Diobani) was merged with the nearby villages of Balıklı (Tzkalsimeri), Mısırlı (İveti), and Taşköprü (İphrevi) to form the municipality of Meydancık.[16] The municipality was dissolved in 2013 and Meydancık reverted to village status.[17]

A church is known to have existed at Meydancık. In the former hamlet of Koklieti, now part of the village, ruins of a rectangular church survive. When cultural historian Nikolay Marr visited in 1904 he noted that a walnut tree had grown in the middle of the ruined structure.[18][19]

Geography

Meydancık village is 98 km from Artvin city center and 33 km from Şavşat.[20]

Population

Population by year
2020 391[21]
2019 404[21]
2018 490[21]
2017 498[21]
2016 540[21]
2015 554[21]
2014 520[21]
2013 1,278[21]
2012 1,184[20]
2011 1,378[20]
2010 1,229[20]
2009 1,199[20]
2008 1,060[20]
2007 1,174[20]
2000 2,059[20]
1990 2,412[20]

References

  1. ^ Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish). TÜİK. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  3. ^ Law No. 6360, Official Gazette, 6 December 2012 (in Turkish).
  4. ^ Şavşeti (შავშეთი), Mamia Pağava, Meri Tsintsadze, Maia Baramidze, Malhaz Çoharadze, Tina Şioşvili, Şota Mamuladze, Ramaz Halvaşi, Nugzar Mgeladze, Zaza Şaşikidze, Batumi, 2016, p. 310. Archived 19 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 978-9941-407-11-6
  5. ^ "Hasan Hüseyin Alemdar – Çıldır Eyaleti İmerhev Sancağı 2771 Numaralı Nüfus Defteri'nin Çevirisi ve Değerlendirmesi, Rize, 2020, p. 39". Archived from the original on 15 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Muvahhid Zeki, Artvin Vilayeti Hakkında Malumat-ı Umumiye, 1927, p. 161". Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказскаго края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г. (Summary of statistical data on the population of the Transcaucasian region, extracted from the family lists of 1886), Tiflis, 1893, entry no. 1470". Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Nurşen Gök, "Documents on the Situation of Artvin Livası at the Time of its Incorporation into the Homeland", Atatürk Yolu Dergisi, No. 41, May 2008, pp. 89–104" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 June 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  9. ^ "Hasan Hüseyin Alemdar – Çıldır Eyaleti İmerhev Sancağı 2771 Numaralı Nüfus Defteri'nin Çevirisi ve Değerlendirmesi, Rize, 2020, pp. 83, 135–138". Archived from the original on 15 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Zakaria Çiçinadze, Muslim Georgians and their Villages in Georgia (Georgian), Tiflis, 1913, p. 295" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Zakaria Çiçinadze, The Great Migration of Muslim Georgians to the Ottoman Country (Georgian), Tiflis, 1912, p. 140". Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  12. ^ ""Российско-грузинский договор 07.5.1920 г. (full text and map)"". Archived from the original on 11 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk, Istanbul, 1969, vol. 2, p. 489". Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  14. ^ "Muvahhid Zeki, Artvin Vilayeti Hakkında Malumat-ı Umumiye, 1927, p. 161". Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  15. ^ 1965 General Census, Ankara, 1968, p. 89.
  16. ^ Taner Artvinli, Artvin Yer Adları Sözlüğü, Istanbul, 2013, p. 143, ISBN 9786055708856.
  17. ^ "List of 559 municipalities to be closed". kamudan.com. 10 October 2012. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  18. ^ Tao-Klarceti – Catalogue of Historical and Cultural Monuments (Georgian), ed. Buba Kudava, Tbilisi, 2018, p. 161, ISBN 9789941478178.
  19. ^ Niko Mari, Şavşeti and Klarceti Travel Diaries (Georgian), Batumi, 2015 (1st ed. 1911, Petersburg, in Russian), p. 171. Archived 9 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 978-9941-434-11-2.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Meydancık Municipality" (in Turkish). YerelNet.org.tr. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h Cite error: The named reference NN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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