Edegül, Ardahan
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Edegül is a village in the
Ardahan District Ardahan District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of Ardahan Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town Ardahan.Ardahan Province Ardahan Province ( tr, , ku, Parêzgeha Erdêxanê, ) is a province in the north-east of Turkey, bordering Georgia and Armenia. The provincial capital is the city of Ardahan. Demographics With 94,932 inhabitants in 2021, Ardahan was the third ...
, Turkey. Its population is 87 (2021).


History

It is unknown when the village of Edegül was established. The known names of the village thus far are Adagül and Edegül. The name of the village was first recorded in an Ottoman cadastral record book dated 1595 as "Adagül (اداكول)". The name Adagül (اداكول) has changed into Edegül (ۀدەكول) over time. In the middle of the 16th century, Edegül along with the Akhalsithe region, was taken from the
Principality of Samtskhe The Samtskhe-Saatabago or Samtskhe Atabegate ( ka, სამცხე-საათაბაგო), also called the Principality of Samtskhe (სამცხის სამთავრო), was a Georgian feudal principality in Zemo Kartli, ru ...
by the Ottoman Empire under the treaty of Amasya with Safavid Empire. Thereafter, Edegül was connected to the Southern sub-district of Ardahan-i Büzürg liva in Childir Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. After staying under the Ottoman rule for more than three centuries, Edegül, along with the Kars province, was taken by Russian Empire after the
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 ( tr, 93 Harbi, lit=War of ’93, named for the year 1293 in the Islamic calendar; russian: Русско-турецкая война, Russko-turetskaya voyna, "Russian–Turkish war") was a conflict between th ...
. Under the Russian administration, Edegül, which was recorded in the name of Adagül (Адагюль), was connected to the Ardahan okrug of the Kars Oblast. According to the Russian census of 1886, there were 59 people in the village at that time. After the First World War, the Moscow Treaty was signed between Government of the Grand National Assembly and Russia on March 16, 1921 and the Kars oblast, along with Edegül village, was ceded to Turkey. In an Ottoman Empire village list dated 1928, the name of the village was recorded as "Edegül" and it was connected to the Yalnızçam subdistrict of Ardahan district of
Kars Kars (; ku, Qers; ) is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. Its population is 73,836 in 2011. Kars was in the ancient region known as ''Chorzene'', (in Greek Χορζηνή) in classical historiography ( Strabo), part of ...
province. When Ardahan became a province in 1992, Edegül became the village of the central district of this province. In 1950, Edegül had 353 population.


References

Villages in Ardahan District {{Ardahan-geo-stub