Boyalık is a
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
İliç District
İliç District is a district of the Erzincan Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of İliç.[Erzincan Province
Erzincan Province ( tr, ; ku, Parezgêha Erzînganê) is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. In Turkey, its capital is also called Erzincan. The population was 236,034 in 2018.
Geography
Erzincan is traversed by the northeaste ...]
in Turkey. Its population is 169 (2022).
As of 2000, it has 2 mosques and 80 houses along with 45 village guards.
Although the village itself has no historical remains, there are well-preserved traces of the old caravan route called the
Padişah Yolu, or "sultan's road", below Boyalık to the south.
This section of the road is scoured from the mountainside and represents part of the ancient
Roman road
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...
running east to
Kemah and
Erzincan
Erzincan (; ku, Erzîngan), historically Yerznka ( hy, Երզնկա), is the capital of Erzincan Province in Eastern Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is ...
.
The road comes to Boyalık from
Hasanova in the west and climbs eastward through "a fertile valley lined with stunted oak trees" to the high plain called
Gâvuroluğu, or the "infidels' passage".
References
Villages in İliç District
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