Şanlı (formerly: ''Çukurköy'') is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Yomra Yomra (Greek: Γέμουρα) is a municipality and district of Trabzon Province, Turkey. Its area is 200 km2, and its population is 47,283 (2022). The town lies on the Black Sea coast, east of the city of Trabzon. The mayor is Mustafa Bıyık ...

Trabzon Province Trabzon Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its area is 4,628 km2, and its population is 818,023 (2022). Located in a strategic ...

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. Its population is 392 (2022). The old name of the village was ''Küçük Şana'' (Small Şana). Many years ago, the village economically depended on a small coastal town near the east of the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

named Şana. This small town had two villages. The name of the first one was Küçük Şana while that of the second one was ''Büyük Şana'' (Great Şana); in the period of the Turkish Republic (i.e. after 1923), the first village's name became ''Çukurköy'' or ''Çukur Köyü''. The village economy depends on agriculture, its main product being

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s. A small river, Küçük Şana Deresi (Small Şana River), passes through the village. Migration to urban areas has meant a sharp population decline and an aging population.

The meaning of Şana

Two myths relate to the origins of the name of Şana. The first one is related to the 16th-century traveler

Evliya Çelebi Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman explorer who travelled through his home country during its cultural zenith as well as neighboring lands. He travelled for over 40 years, rec ...

. It is said he pronounced "Şahane" when visiting the village. This word means "glorious", "tremendous", or "fantastic" in the

Turkish language Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languag ...

, the word itself being derived from the

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. A more plausible myth is related to the regionally-spoken

Laz language The Laz or Lazuri language () is a Kartvelian languages, Kartvelian language spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. In 2007, it was estimated that there were around 20,000 native speakers in Turkey, in a strip of ...

. According to this explanation, "şana" means "festival."

References

External links

Yomra district website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanli, Yomra Neighbourhoods in Yomra District