Sinanköy, Ardeşen
village in Ardeşen, Rize, northeastern Turkey

Sinanköy (also: Sinan) is a village in the Ardeşen District, Rize Province, in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Its population is 53 (2021).
History
According to list of villages in Laz language book (2009), name of the village is P'alivati. Most villagers are ethnically Laz.
Geography
The village is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) away from Ardeşen.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sinanköy, Ardeşen” as village in Ardeşen, Rize, northeastern Turkey. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Ardeşen, Rize, northeastern Turkey. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q10819872. Authority coordinates are 41.106, 41.088. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2009.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Sinanköy, Ardeşen” 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.