Özyurt is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Şenkaya, Erzurum Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its population is 320 (2022).
Özyurt's former name was Bariki. Bariki () is a Georgian place name and is related to the word ‘bari’ (ბარი). Indeed, Georgian Turkologist Sergi Jikia notes that some Georgian words used to end with the suffix ‘-ki’ (-კი).გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume III (1958), p. 560. Bari (ბარი) means valley in the Georgian language."ბარი" - A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary, London, 2006, 2 volumes ISBN 0-9535878-3-5 Bariki is written as "Barik" (بریك) 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. 562.
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