Sırakonak ( hy, Խոտորջուր, translit=Xotorǰur'' or ''Xodorčur) is a village in the
District of İspir,
Erzurum Province
Erzurum Province ( tr, Erzurum ili) is a province of Turkey in the Eastern Anatolia Region of the country. The capital of the province is the city of Erzurum. It is bordered by the provinces of Kars and Ağrı to the east, Muş and Bingöl to the ...
, Turkey. In 2000, it had a population of 418. It was formerly known as Hodiçor, Xodiçur, Xodrçur and Xodorçur. The former names are derived from the Armenian name of the whole valley, the Khodorchur or Khotorjur. Before the
Armenian genocide
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the settlement was the centre of a group of thirteen villages populated by Catholic Christian
Armenian
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* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
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s
The Armenians of Khodorchur spoke a distinct dialect of Armenian. It belonged to the
Western dialects of Armenian, but had features characteristic of the
Eastern dialects as well as features unique to itself or shared only with the neighbouring Armenian dialect of
Homshetsma. The Khodorchur dialect is now extinct, and no known vocal recordings of it survive.
The Armenian population of the Khodorchur valley was deported at the end of June 1915.
[Simon Payaslian "The Death of Armenian Karin/Erzurum", p353, in Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.), "Armenian Karin/Erzurum", Cosa Mesa, 2003.]
References
Villages in İspir District
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