Arslanbey or Aslanbey () is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Kartepe Kartepe is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 301 km2, and its population is 136,625 (2022). The mayor is Mustafa Kocaman ( AKP). Geography Kartepe (literally Snowy hill referring to mountains to the south ...

Kocaeli Province Kocaeli Province (, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey and one of only three not to have the same official name as its capital, İzmit, which is thus also sometim ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. Its population is 3,927 (2022). Before the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily t ...

it was populated by

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s and was known as Aslanbeg. The Armenian dialect of Aslanbeg had some unusual features; it was described by

Hrachia Adjarian Hrachia Acharian (, Armenian orthography reform, reformed spelling: Հրաչյա Աճառյան; ; 8 March 1876 – 16 April 1953) was an Armenians, Armenian linguistics, linguist, lexicography, lexicographer, etymology, etymologist, and philol ...

but now is extinct.

References

Neighbourhoods in Kartepe District {{Kocaeli-geo-stub