Zaki, Çıldır
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Zaki (Georgian: ზაქი or ზაკი) or Zegani (Georgian: ზეგანი) is a village that has disappeared from the Turkish part of the historical Javakheti region. The settlement area is now within the boundaries of the village of Dirsekkaya (formerly Zarabuki), which is part of the Çıldır District of Ardahan Province in Turkey.
History
There is no clarity regarding the meaning of the Georgian place name Zaki (ზაქი or ზაკი). This place name is written as Zak (زاك) in the Ottoman land-survey register (mufassal defter) of 1595. In 1902, Georgian historian and archaeologist Ekvtime Takaishvili wrote the name of the village church as Zaki (Заки) as well as Zegan (Зеган) in Russian language. In the Georgian language, ‘zegani’ (ზეგანი) means plateau.
The Javakheti region, where the village of Zaki is located, was one of the areas that made up historical Georgia. Indeed, the Ottomans seized this region and the village from the Georgians in 1578. The Zaki Church or Zegani Church, built no later than the 10th century, indicates that this was a very old settlement.
In the Ottoman land-survey register (mufassal defter) of 1595, the village of Zaki was listed as belonging to the Kurd Kalası district (nahiye) of the Çıldır Province (liva) within the Vilayet of Georgia (Vilayet-i Gürcistan).
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