village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in the
Akçakoca District
Akçakoca District is a district of the Düzce Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Akçakoca.Düzce Province in Turkey. Its population is 163 (2022).
History
The name of the village is mentioned as Gebekilise in the records of 1568 and 1928. The old name of Aktaş village, known as an old Manav village, is Gebekilise. After the 1878 War, a significant Laz population came to the village from Hopa and Kemalpaşa districts. It is known that the community living in the village and called Manav are the descendants of the
Cuman
The Cumans (or Kumans), also known as Polovtsians or Polovtsy (plural only, from the Russian language, Russian Exonym and endonym, exonym ), were a Turkic people, Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confede ...
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Kipchaks
The Kipchaks or Qipchaks, also known as Kipchak Turks or Polovtsians, were a Turkic nomadic people and confederation that existed in the Middle Ages, inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe. First mentioned in the 8th century as part of the Se ...
, who were settled in a planned manner by the Nicea Emperor İoannes (John) Vatatzes, as mentioned.