Sarp (Turkey)

Sarp
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Artvin
District ( ilçe ) :	Hopa
Coordinates :	41 ° 31 '  N , 41 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 31 '4 "  N , 41 ° 32' 55"  E
Height :	50  m
Residents :	233 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90) 466
Postal code :	08 xxx
License plate :	08
Structure and administration (as of 2011)
Mayor :	Yalçın Çakır

In the foreground you can see the Georgian part of Sarpi with the beach. In the background the Turkish part of Sarp with mosque.

Sarp ( Georgia სარფი , Laz Sarpi ) is the southern part of the divided border village in the province of Artvin in northeastern Turkey . It is located on the Georgian- Turkish border at an altitude of about 50 meters directly on the coast of the Black Sea and belongs to the district of Hopa . The inhabitants belong to the Lasen people . The neighboring town in Georgia is Sarpi .

Sarp was in the judicial district of Gönye of Sanjak Lazistan during the Ottoman period . After the Russo-Ottoman War in 1878, Sarp passed to the Russian Empire. Between 1918 and 1921 it was part of the Democratic Republic of Georgia . When the borders between the Soviet Union and Turkey were determined in 1921, it was decided to divide the village.

Web links

Commons : Sarp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on yerelnet

Individual evidence

1. ^ Turkish Institute for Statistics ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed April 7, 2010