Yeniköy
Village
Yeniköy is located in Turkey
Yeniköy
Yeniköy
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 40°11′03″N 42°10′33″E / 40.1842°N 42.1758°E / 40.1842; 42.1758
CountryTurkey
ProvinceKars
DistrictSarıkamış
Population
 (2022)
441
Time zoneTRT (UTC+3)

Yeniköy (Greek: Νεοχώρι) is a village in the Sarıkamış District, Kars Province, Turkey.[1] It was founded in 1878 by Pontic Greek settlers who abandoned the region in 1918. As of 2022 the village had a population of 441 people.[2]

History

Yeniköy was founded in 1878 by Pontic Greek Crypto-Christian settlers from Erzurum, Chaldia and Nicopolis shortly after the Kars Province was incorporated into the Russian Empire in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).[3][4] After founding the village its residents began practicing Orthodox Christianity openly once again, building a stone church in 1884. At the turn of the century the village had a population of 1242 people most of whom were engaged in animal husbandry and farming, its school numbered 107 pupils.[4]

On 3 March 1918, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Ottoman Empire, returning the Kars region to the Ottomans. Fearing that their village will be affected by the Greek genocide, Yeniköy's residents abandoned their village for Batumi.[3] Greek refugees lived in camps in squalid conditions, suffering hunger and typhus. The Greek government began organizing evacuations in May 1919,[5] and Yeniköy residents were eventually brought to Kalamaria in Thessaloniki. They were then moved to Toumba before being relocated to Neapoli. High mortality caused by outbreaks of malaria caused the refugees to request the Greek government to allocate them housing in a mountainous area. Between 1921 and 1922 they were gradually resettled in the village of Notia.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Kelenteridis 2022, p. 67.
  4. 1 2 Mavrogenous 1963, p. 75.
  5. ↑ Agtzidis 2001, pp. 50–51.

References

  • Agtzidis, Vlasis (2001). Η ιστορία των Ελλήνων του Καυκάσου στο Καρς και στο Κιλκίς: Εικονογραφημένη διαδρομή ενός αιώνα (1900-2000) [The history of the Greeks in Kars and Kilkis: Illustrated journey of a century (1900-2000)] (in Greek). Technogramma. ISBN 960-7584-79-1.
  • Kelenteridis, Savvas (2022). Η Αλμωπία στα μονοπάτια της Ιστορίας [Almopia in the Paths of History] (in Greek). Infognomon. ISBN 978-618-5590-35-2.
  • Mavrogenous, Stylianos (1963). Το κυβερνείον Κάρς του Αντικαυκάσου: (Καρσκαγιά Ομπλάστ) και το εν αυτώ ελληνικόν στοιχείον κατά την περίοδον 1878-1920 [The Kars Governorate in the Transcaucasus region, specifically Karskaya Oblast, and the Greek element within it during the period 1878-1920.] (in Greek). Euxinos Lesxi Thessalonikis.
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