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Aksu, Fındıklı

mahalle (administrative quarter) in Fındıklı, Rize, northeastern Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ111914674 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aksu is a neighbourhood of the town Fındıklı, Fındıklı District, Rize Province, northeastern Turkey. Its population is 2,240 (2021).

History

According to list of villages in Laz language book (2009), name of the neighbourhood is Abunogha, which means "Abu bazaar". Most inhabitants of the neighbourhood are ethnically Laz.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Aksu, Fındıklı” is mahalle (administrative quarter) in Fındıklı, Rize, northeastern Turkey. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Aksu, Fındıklı and mahalle, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Aksu, Fındıklı and mahalle is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “mahalle (administrative quarter) in Fındıklı, Rize, northeastern Turkey” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q111914674. Authority coordinates are 41.280, 41.151. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aksu, Fındıklı” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.