Avcılar, Yusufeli
Village in Artvin, Turkey
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Avcılar is a village in the Yusufeli District, Artvin Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 56 (2021).[2] This village has an agriculturally and husbandry based economy.
History
The former name of Avcılar was Kahnes.[3] This place name appears in Georgian sources as Kahnesi (კახნესი).
The settlement was part of the historical Tao region within Tao-Klarceti, a medieval Georgian cultural and political area. The Ottomans took control of the region from Georgian administration in the mid-16th century. In Ottoman tax registers dated 1555 and 1574, the settlement appears as "Kaknis" and is recorded not as an independent village but as a hamlet of Oşnak.[3]
In a later period, Kahnes became a neighbourhood of Çorgenis village. In 1956, it was reorganized as an independent village under the name Avcılar.[3] In the 1960 general population census, Avcılar was recorded as a village in the Ersis subdistrict of Yusufeli district with a population of 326.[4] By 1965, the population had increased to 338, of which 185 people were literate.[5]
Geography
Avcılar is located 159 km from Artvin city centre and 54 km from Yusufeli district centre.[6]
