Hançerli, Niğde
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Hançerli is a former Karamanlides village, famous for its Dermason beans. The village, officially a neighborhood, is in the Niğde district of Niğde province in central Turkey. It is 9 kilometers from the capital of the province, and its population is 294.[1]
The village has been known by many names, many of them similar to each other. It is listed as Dilmuson in official Ottoman records from the years 1500, 1518, and 1530.[2] The village's name is listed as Dylmusun or Termissos in an early 20th-century catalog of archeological sites in southern Asia Minor,[3] as Τελμησσός, Τελμησός, Ντελμισσόν, Ντελμοσό, Hancereli, or Dulmucum in a study of late 19th- and early 20th-century migrants or refugees,[4] and as Τερμισσός in a late 19th-century study of Cappadocian monasteries.[5] Its name is listed as Dilmisson or ديلميصون in a Turkish Interior Ministry report in 1928,[6] but as Hançerli in a 1957 geographical study.[7]
History
The village flourished economically from 1839 to 1870 as a center of cotton trade in Cilicia.[8]
In 1920, the population of the village included 1045 Karamanlides and 1283 Muslims.[9] In the Population Exchange of 1923, the Karamanlides of the village were sent to Greece while 176 Muslims from Kastoria and Chroupista in Greece were settled in the village.[10]
