Hemşin

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Hemşin (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Rize
Coordinates : 41 ° 3 ′  N , 40 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 3 ′ 1 ″  N , 40 ° 54 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 336  m
Residents : 1,556 (2018)
Telephone code : (+90) 464
Postal code : 53 550
License plate : 53
Structure and administration (as of 2019)
Structure : 4 malls
Mayor : Halim Kazım Bekar ( AKP )
Postal address : Ataturk Cad. No: 70
53550 Hemşin
Website:
Hemşin County
Residents : 2,817 (2018)
Surface: 134 km²
Population density : 21 inhabitants per km²
Kaymakam : Bayram Sağir
Website (Kaymakam):
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Hemsin ( Armenian Համշէն Homshetsi dialect or Համամաշէն Hammam ash , in German "Weiler hamam" translated; previously known as Tambur ) is a city and a district in the province of Rize in Turkey . The city lies at the foot of the Ceğalver Mountain and is surrounded by forested mountains. According to the city seal, the place was raised to the status of a municipality ( Belediye ) in 1955 .

The district is centrally located in the province and has no external borders with other provinces. In the north it borders on the Pazar District , in the east on the Çamlıhemşin District and in the west on the Çayeli District . The county was formed in 1990 from the southern part of Pazar County. Until then it was a separate Bucak under the name Ortaköy and had a population of 5,458 inhabitants (of which 2,594 for the Bucak merkezi Ortaköy) in the last census before the change of area (1985 ).

The district is the third smallest in the province and has the smallest number of inhabitants. The population density is significantly lower (21.0) than that of the province (90.9 inh. Per km²). In addition to the district town there are eight villages ( Köy ) with an average of 158 inhabitants. The population ranges from 263 ( Akyamaç ) to 53 ( Bilenköy ).

history

According to Armenian chronicles from the Middle Ages, the place was founded by a prince from the Armenian noble dynasty ( Nacharar ) of the Amatuni with the name Hamam , who settled here with his entourage in the ruins of the destroyed tambour and rebuilt the place. He then called it Hamamaschen , which means "Hamam's hamlet". The Chronicle The story of Taron sets this event in the early 7th century. Other chroniclers mention the years 750 and 789.

The Armenian priest ( erets ), church doctor ( vardapet ) and historian ( patmagir ) with the name Ghevond (also: Lewond ; Latin: Leontius ) wrote his 'Historia' around 790, which deals with the penetration of the Arab Muslims into the Middle East and Armenia employed between 632 and 788.

According to him, Prince Hamam, son of Shapuh Amatuni, was one of the Armenian princes who, as a result of the Mamikonian- led uprising against the Abbasid caliphate in 774 and the lost battle of Bagrewand on April 25, 775, left the Armenian regions of Taron , Sasun and had to leave Bagrewand (Bagrevand). These princes belonged to the noble families of the Mamikonian, Kamsarakan and Amatuni. Armenia came completely under the rule of the Abbasids. According to Leontius, over 12,000 Armenians under the leadership of Shapuh Amatuni and his son Hamam fled towards the Black Sea on Byzantine territory. There on the Black Sea the latter founded the place Hamamschen. From this the principality of Hamamschen developed , which existed for the entire Middle Ages up to the 14th century.

When the area in 14/15. When it fell under the rule of the Muslim Ottomans in the 20th century, part of the Christian-Armenian population was Islamized in the period that followed. In the culture of the Muslim descendants of the original Christian Armenians, however festivals have received the Armenian origin, such as Vardavar that the Hamschenzi (Vardavar) Vartevor is called.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 15, 2019
  2. ↑ A Different Tradition: Hamshen Armenians struggle for identity and recognition , armenianow.com, March 2, 2007
  3. ↑ History of Lewond, the eminent Vardapet of the Armenians , library.princeton.edu
  4. ↑ Ghewond's History , ccel.org
  5. ↑ Ghewond, History (2006) pp. 1-47, tertullian.org
  6. ^ The Critical Corner: 'The History' by Ghevond , by Eddie Arnavoudian
  7. ↑ Ghewond, History (2006) Chapter 42, tertullian.org
  8. ↑ The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: The Arab Period in Armnyah Seventh to Eleventh Centuries in the Google Book Search, by Seta B. Dadoyan. Page 85–86