Arnauli

Arnauli (Georgian: არნაული) is a settlement in the Klarjeti region. Today, it is a part of Bulanık village, Ardanuç district, Artvin Province in Turkey.

History

The Georgian toponym Arnauli (არნაული) may derive from a family name. Indeed, there are Georgian family names ending with the suffix "-uli" (-ული).[1] Other Georgian toponyms in the village, such as Dudumeti (დუდუმეთი), Çançahi (ჭანჭახი), and Karsevani (ყარსევანი), have survived to this day.[2] The name Arnauli was recorded in Turkish as Arnavul (آرناوول) and later changed to Kirazlı.[3]

Arnauli was located in Klarjeti, one of the regions that formed historical Georgia. Indeed, the Ottomans captured this region from the Georgians in the 16th century.[4] Karsevani Castle may also date from this period.[5]

The village of Arnauli was ceded to Russia by the Ottoman Empire as part of war reparations following the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War. The settlement, recorded as Arnaul (Арнаулъ) by the Russian administration in the 1886 census, was a neighborhood of Longethevi, part of the Longothevi sub-district of the Ardanuç district of the Artvin Sanjak. Longothevi had 413 people living in 57 households. Nine of these 57 households were located in the Arnauli neighborhood. Based on the average number of people per household in the village, it can be said that Arnauli's population consisted of approximately 65 people.[6]

After the Artvin region was ceded to Türkiye, Arnauli was not listed as a village in the 1922 population survey conducted in the Artvin district.[7] This settlement was listed as a separate village in a 1927 book by Muvahhid Zeki, known for his work on the Artvin province. According to the 1926 population survey, the village's population consisted of 60 people, 31 male and 29 female, living in 11 households.

Non-Turkish village names in Artvin province were changed in 1925, but the name Arnavul remained. Indeed, in the 1928 Ottoman village list, it appears as Arnavul (ارناوول). At that time, the village was part of the Ardanuç sub-district of the central district of Artvin province.[8] The fact that Arnavul village was not mentioned in the 1935 census suggests that it was a neighborhood within the village of Bulanık before that date. Its name was later changed to Kirazlı, and today it remains a neighborhood within the village of Bulanık.

Karsevani Castle, built in the Middle Ages in Arnauli or Kirazlı, has been completely destroyed, leaving only its cisterns.[9]

References

  1. ^ "ტბეთის სულთა მატიანე", by Tina Enukidze, Tbilisi, 1977, pp. 167.
  2. ^ "კლარჯეთი", Mamia Paghava, Meri Tsintsadze, Maia Baramidze, Malkhaz Choharadze, Tina Shioshvili, Shota Mamuladze, Ramaz Halvashii, Nugzar Mgeladze, Zaza Shashikadze, Jemal Karalidze, Batumi, 2016, pp. 607, 644, 645. ISBN 978-9941-0-8969-5
  3. ^ Muvahhid Zeki, Artvin Vilayeti Hakkında Malumat-ı Umumiye, 1927, pp. 115.
  4. ^ Roland Topchishvili, "ქართველთა ეთნიკური ისტორია და საქართველოს ისტორიულ-ეთნოგრაფიული მხარეები", 2002, pp. 66-67.
  5. ^ "კლარჯეთი", Mamia Paghava, Meri Tsintsadze, Maia Baramidze, Malkhaz Choharadze, Tina Shioshvili, Shota Mamuladze, Ramaz Halvashii, Nugzar Mgeladze, Zaza Shashikadze, Jemal Karalidze, Batumi, 2016, pp. 645. ISBN 978-9941-0-8969-5
  6. ^ Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказскаго края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г., Tbilisi, 1893, "Batumi oblast" - 1397
  7. ^ Nurşen Gök, “Artvin Livası'nın Anavatan'a Katılışı Sırasındaki Durumuna İlişkin Belgeler”, Ankara Üniversitesi Türk İnkılâp Tarihi Enstitüsü Atatürk Yolu Dergisi, NO: 41, Mai 2008, pp. 89-104.
  8. ^ Muvahhid Zeki, Artvin Vilayeti Hakkında Malumat-ı Umumiye, 1927, pp. 115.
  9. ^ "კლარჯეთი", Mamia Paghava, Meri Tsintsadze, Maia Baramidze, Malkhaz Choharadze, Tina Shioshvili, Shota Mamuladze, Ramaz Halvashii, Nugzar Mgeladze, Zaza Shashikadze, Jemal Karalidze, Batumi, 2016, pp. 645. ISBN 978-9941-0-8969-5
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