Vaziskhevi
Vaziskhevi (Georgian: ვაზისხევი) was a settlement in the historical region of Klarjeti, in what is now the central district of Artvin Province. It has since become a locality within the Derinköy village of the central district of Artvin Province.
History
[edit]The Georgian place name Vaziskhevi (ვაზისხევი) is composed of the words vazi (ვაზი), meaning "grapevine", and khevi (ხევი), meaning "ravine" or "valley". The name therefore roughly means "Grapevine Valley".[1][2] The name suggests that viticulture was practiced in the area. Vaziskhevi is also registered in some sources as "Vazihev". The 1913 map of the German geographer Richard Kiepert, for example, gives the name as "Vasichev".[3]
In the Russian administration's 1886 population census, Vaziskhevi was registered as Vazikhev (Вазихевъ). The settlement was located in the Artvin district (uchastok) of the Artvin okrug and was a neighborhood of the village of Gurjani in the Gurjani subdistrict (nahiye). It consisted of seven households. Gurjani itself had 164 inhabitants in 19 households. Based on the average number of inhabitants per household in Gurjani, the population of Vaziskhevi can be estimated at approximately 60 people. The inhabitants of both Gurjani and Vaziskhevi, historically Georgian settlements, were registered as "Turks" in the census.[4]
Vaziskhevi was shown on Kiepert's map as "Vazikhev", immediately north of the village of Gurjani (Derinköy). In the same area, Vardiskhevi ("Vartaschev"), whose name is sometimes confused with that of Vaziskhevi, was located east of Vaziskhevi, near and northwest of the village of Boselta (Okumuşlar).[5]
Vaziskhevi did not appear as a separate village in later registers. In Artvin Yer Adları Sözlüğü (Dictionary of Artvin Place Names), Taner Artvinli records the name, based on a land registry entry, as a locality ("Vazihav") within Derinköy.[6] The name Vaziskhevi was also documented in a 2015 research survey.[7] A stream in the area is currently known as the "Vazihev Deresi".
References
[edit]- ↑ "ვაზი" - A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary, London, 2006, 2 vols. ISBN 0-9535878-3-5
- ↑ "ხევი" - A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary, London, 2006, 2 vols. ISBN 0-9535878-3-5
- ↑ Richard Kiepert, "Tirabzon" sheet, Karte von Kleinasien, Berlin, 1913
- ↑ "Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказскаго края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г. (Summary of Statistical Data on the Population of the Transcaucasian Region Extracted from the 1886 Family Lists), Tiflis, 1893, "Batum oblast" - 1325". Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ↑ Richard Kiepert, "Tirabzon" sheet, Karte von Kleinasien, Berlin, 1913
- ↑ Taner Artvinli, Artvin Yer Adları Sözlüğü, Istanbul, 2013, p. 265, ISBN 978-605-5708-85-6.
- ↑ Results of the 2015 Research Expeditions on the Historical Monuments of Tao-Klarjeti (ტაო-კლარჯეთის ძეგლების 2015 წლის საკვლევი ექსპედიციების ანგარიშები), Tbilisi, 2016, p. 184 Archived 6 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 978-9941-9123-9-9
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