Bakırtepe is a village in the Yusufeli District, Artvin Province, Turkey.Köy , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 30 January 2023. Its population is 120 (2021).
History
Bakırtepe's former name was Tungens. The village was listed in the 1928 Ottoman Turkish village list as Tungens or Tüngens (تونكنس). This place name is written in Georgian as Tungensi (თუნგენსი).Son Teşkilat-i Mülkiyede Köylerimizin Adları (Osmanlıca), Istanbul, 1928, p. 82.Tao-Klarceti - Tarihsel ve Kültürel Anıtlar Kataloğu (Gürcüce), ed. Buba Kudava, authors Nestan Bagauri, Zurab Batiaşvili, İrma Beridze, Buba Kudava, Nikoloz Jğenti, Goça Saitidze, Natia Hizanişvili, Tbilisi, 2018, p. 484. ISBN 9789941478178.
Tungens was located in Tao, one of the regions that made up medieval Georgia. The Ottomans captured this region from the Georgians in the mid-16th century. However, the settlement's name does not appear in early Ottoman records.
Tungens was one of the villages in the central nahiye of Yusufeli district in Artvin Province in 1928. In the 1940 general census, the village, written as "Tünges", was in the central nahiye of Yusufeli kaza of Çoruh Province and had a population of 384.1940 Genel Nüfus Sayımı, Ankara, 1946, p. 170. In Turkish sources, the village name was written as Türgens, Tünkes, and Tünges; because it was considered to be of foreign origin, it was changed to Bakırtepe in 1959 under Law No. 7267. In the 1965 general census, Bakırtepe had a population of 471, of whom 261 were literate.1965 Genel Nüfus Sayımı, Ankara, 1968, p. 89.
Geography
Bakırtepe is 146 km from Artvin and 41 km from Yusufeli. Aros Yaylası, where Karakucak wrestling is held every year, is located in this village.
Population
Population history of the village 2021 120 2020 123 2019 131 2018 158 2017 105 2016 109 2015 121 2014 138 2013 154 2012 124 2011 125 2010 116 2009 109 2008 128 2007 142 2000 130 1990 234 1985 243
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