Dernekpazarı (formerly: ''Kondu'', ''Kondualtı'') is a municipality and
district
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of
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 ...
,
Turkey
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. Its area is 89 km
2, and its population is 3,761 (2022).
The current mayor of the town is Mehmet Aşık (
AKP). Dernekpazarı is part of the Solaklı river valley system; it lies between the coastal
Of district and the alpine
Çaykara district.
History
The history of Dernekpazarı is closely related to the history of the Trabzon, the largest city of the Black Sea Region. Depending who ruled the Trabzon Province, the hill country came under Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman sovereignty. The population consisted largely of Pontic Greeks who converted to Islam during the 17th and 18th centuries. Currently the Of dialect of
Pontic Greek
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(locally called 'Romeyka') is still spoken in the villages and nearly all locally current place names are in Greek. A few residents of the district who retained their
Christian
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faith at the beginning of the 20th century were resettled in the town of
Nea Trapezounta, near Katerini in Greece, in the wake of the
population exchange between Greece and Turkey
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 30 January 1923, by the governments of Greece and Turkey. It involv ...
in 1923.
Composition
There are 14
neighbourhoods
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in Dernekpazarı District (Pontic Greek names in brackets):
Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
* Akköse
Akköse () is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Dernekpazarı, Trabzon Province, Turkey
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(Ζένο)
* Çalışanlar (Καλανός)
* Çayırbaşı (Χαβάσο)
* Gülen (Βυζίρ)
* Günebakan (Ζενόζενα)
* Güney
* Kondu (Κοντού)
* Merkez
* Ormancık (Μακιδάνος)
* Taşçılar (Φώτγκενε)
* Tüfekçi (Αρσέλα)
* Yenicami
* Yenice (Μαρλαδάς)
* Zincirlitaş (Βετζονά)
References
External links
District governor's official website
Populated places in Trabzon Province
Districts of Trabzon Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
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