Georgian and Turkish onymy in the speech of Georgian speaking Muhajirs living in the Düzce region (Turkey)

• Authors: Tariel Putkaradze , Mikheil Labadze , Sopio Kekua

Abstracts

EN

After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, the Turkish authorities initially settled Muhajirs on the Black Sea coast of the Ottoman Empire. Some of their descendants have preserved their mother tongue and many historical traditions to the present day. There were about 150 villages in which Muhajirs from the Russian Empire were temporarily settled on Ottoman state owned lands (vakufs) between 1878pp1882. In those villages, descendants of Muhajirs (not only Georgians, but also Abkhaz-Abazas and North Caucasians) can still be found today. The present article deals with the onomastic material preserved in Georgian Muhajirs’ speech in the Düzce region (Düzce İli). Before 1878, the territory of modern Düzce was populated by different ethnic groups living alongside ethnic Turks. These included Orthodox Bulgarians from Thrace, Greeks and Bosnians. After the war, most of those peoples left the region for their historical motherlands, and the territory left by them was offered to Muhajirs coming from the South-western Georgia (Achara, Machakhela, Nigali…).

Keywords

PL

onomastics; Muhajirs; Georgia; Turkey; Düzce; code-mixing

EN

onomastics; Muhajirs; Georgia; Turkey; Düzce; code-mixing

• Publisher: Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Onomastica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 66
• Pages: 189-200

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Tariel Putkaradze

• Saint Andrews Georgian University

author

Mikheil Labadze

• Saint Andrews Georgian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000203128662

author

Sopio Kekua

• Saint Andrews Georgian University

• https://orcid.org/0000000281730042

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17651/ONOMAST.66.13

Biblioteka Nauki

2167441