Oskihati (Georgian: ოსკიჰათი) is a vanished village in the historical Tao region. Its settlement was located in the Şenkaya District of Erzurum province.
History Oskihati (ოსკიჰათი) was recorded as Oskihat (اوسكیحات) 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. 602.
The Tao region, where the village of Oskihati is located, was one of the areas that constituted Georgia in the Middle Ages. Indeed, the Ottomans captured this region from the Georgians in the years following the Georgian Campaign of 1549.
In the Ottoman land-survey register (mufassal defter) of 1574, Oskihati was located in the Bardız district of the Oltu liva. The village's population consisted of nine households, all Christian."ტაო", Mamia Paghava, Meri Tsintsadze, Maia Baramidze, Malkhaz Choharadze, Tina Shioshvili, Ramaz Khalvashi, Nugzar Mgeladze, Zaza Shashikadze, Merab Khalvashi, Jimsher Chkhvimiani, Jemal Karalidze, Batumi, 2020, p. 78. ISBN 978-9941-25-828-2 In the 1595 Ottoman land registry, the village's administrative status remained unchanged.გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume III (1958), p. 602.
The village of Oskihati was recorded as Oski[hat] ([اوسكی[حات) in the Ottoman cebe defter of Çıldır Province, covering the period 1694-1732. In 1120 AH (1708/1709), the village held the same administrative status, with a revenue of 8,300 akçe, and was assigned to a man named İbrahim."ჩილდირის ვილაიეთის ჯაბა დავთარი : 1694-1732 წწ.", Tsisana Abuladze, Tbilisi, 1979, 262.
Georgian Turkologist Sergi Jikia, in a note in his 1595 Ottoman detailed registry, noted that Oskihati appeared on the Russian map as "Oskyat" (Оският).გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume III (1958), p. 602. Oskihati's name is missing from later records, and it appears that it ceased to be a village at an unknown date.
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