Dernekpazarı is a district of
Trabzon Province
Trabzon Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Located in a strategically important region, Trabzon is one of the oldest trade port cities in Anatolia. Neighbouring provinces are Giresun to the west, Gümüşhane to the ...
in the
Black Sea
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region of
Turkey
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.The old name of the town was Kondu (or Kondualtı) and the current mayor of the town is Mehmet Aşık (
AKP). Dernekpazarı is part of the Of-valley system ('Solaklı Vadisi' in Turkish); it lies between the coastal
Of district and the alpine
Çaykara district.
History
The history of Dernekpazarı is closely related to the history of the Trabzon, the largest city of the Black Sea Region. Depending who ruled the Trabzon Province, the hill country came under Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman sovereignty. The population consisted largely of Pontic Greeks who converted to Islam during the 17th and 18th centuries. Currently the Of dialect of
Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek ( pnt, Ποντιακόν λαλίαν, or ; el, Ποντιακή διάλεκτος, ; tr, Rumca) is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, ...
(locally called 'Romeyka') is still spoken in the villages and nearly all locally current place names are in Greek. A few residents of the district who retained their
Christian
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faith at the beginning of the 20th century were resettled in the town of
Nea Trapezounta, near Katerini in Greece, in the wake of the
population exchange between Greece and Turkey
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey ( el, Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, I Antallagí, ota, مبادله, Mübâdele, tr, Mübadele) stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at ...
in 1923.
Villages
The villages are listed north to south, with their Turkish and Greek names:
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Gülen - Visir / Βυζίρ'
*''Dernekpazarı'' - Kondu / Κοντού
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Akköse
Akköse is a village in the Dernekpazarı district of Trabzon Province, Turkey, close to the town of Trabzon
Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgi ...
- Zeno / Ζένο
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Zincirlitaş - Vezeno / Βετζονά
The following villages are part of the 'Holo' community in the southwest of the district:
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Yenice - Marladas / Μαρλαδάς
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Günebakan - Zenozena / Ζενόζενα
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Tüfekçi - Arşela / Αρσέλα
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Çalışanlar - Kalanas / Καλανός
* - Makidanos / Μακιδάνος
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Taşçılar - Fotkene / Φώτγκενε
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Çayırbaşı - Havaşo / Χαβάσο
References
External links
District governor's official website
Populated places in Trabzon Province
Districts of Trabzon Province
Dernekpazarı District
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