Binbaşıeminbey (or Binbaşı Eminbey) is a village in the Posof District, Ardahan Province, Turkey.Köy , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 15 January 2023. Its population is 94 (2021).
The old name of the village of Binbaşıeminbey is Chilvana. Chilvana (ჭილვანა) is derived from the Georgian word "chili" (ჭილი: rush) and means "rush bed"."ტაო–კლარჯეთის ძეგლების 2014 წლის საკვლევი ექსპედიციების ანგარიშები", Tbilisi, 2015, pp. 192. ISBN 978-9941-0-7362-5"ჭილი" - A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary, London, 2006 ISBN 0-9535878-3-5 Chili (ჭილი) is known in this region as ‘cil otu’ and is used in the manufacture of saddles. Chilvana is written as "Çilvana" (چلوانە) in the Ottoman land-survey register (mufassal defter) of 1595.გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume III (1958), p. 435. The name of the village later changed to "Cilvana" (جیلوانا) in Turkish.Son Teşkilat-i Mülkiyede Köylerimizin Adları (Ottoman Turkish), Istanbul, 1928, p. 761. Poma, formerly a village, is now within the boundaries of Binbaşıeminbey village.
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