Çayıryolu, formerly Sünür, is a village in the
Bayburt District
Bayburt District (also: ''Merkez'', meaning "central") is a district of Bayburt Province of Turkey. Its seat is the city Bayburt.[Bayburt Province
Bayburt Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province of Turkey. Located in the Northeast Anatolia Region (statistical), Northeast Anatolia region of the country, the capital city is Bayburt. Its area is 3,746 km2, and its population is 84,24 ...]
,
Turkey
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. Its population is 231 (2021). Before the
2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''
belde
Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish.
All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...
''). The village has a historic mosque and mausoleum.
The present mosque is largely rebuilt in concrete sometimes after 1967.
The minaret of the mosque dates to 1676/77 but its base could be an earlier construction.
The mosque was repaired by the
Ottomans
Ottoman may refer to:
* Osman I, historically known in English as "Ottoman I", founder of the Ottoman Empire
* Osman II, historically known in English as "Ottoman II"
* Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empir ...
after the village was burned by the
Safavid
The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often considered the begi ...
Tahmasp I
Tahmasp I ( or ; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 until his death in 1576. He was the eldest son of Shah Ismail I and his principal consort, Tajlu Khanum.
Tahmasp ascended the throne after the ...
in 1548/49.
The repairs are commemorated by an Ottoman inscription in the mosque written in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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with the date of 1550. Located in the mosque's graveyard is a ruined tomb believed to be of the
Akkoyunlu Akkoyunlu can refer to:
* Akkoyunlu, Başmakçı
* Akkoyunlu, Çermik
* Akkoyunlu, Çobanlar
* the Turkish name for Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (, ; ) was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''M ...
ruler ''Kutlu'' Bey (d. 1389).
Kutlu Bey was the father of Kara Yülük Osman Bey who founded the Akkoyunlu State.
Sünür (derived from the Greek "Sinora", border) has the remains of the ruins of the tower where
Mithridates
Mithridates or Mithradates (Old Persian 𐎷𐎡𐎰𐎼𐎭𐎠𐎫 ''Miθradāta'') is the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic form of an Iranian languages, Iranian theophoric name, meaning "given by Mithra". Its Modern Persian form is Mehrdad. It ...
halted on his retreat from Armenia.
[Adrian Nicholas Sherwin-White ''Roman foreign policy in the East, 168 B.C. to A.D. 1'' Page 193 - 1984 -"Mithridates made good his escape with some three thousand men to the fortress and treasury of Sinora, on the border of Armenia proper. There he remained long enough to distribute pay to his troops and to learn that Tigranes would give him ..."]
References
Villages in Bayburt District
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