Avcılar is a village in the Yusufeli District, Artvin Province, Turkey. Its population is 56 (2021). This village has an agriculturally and husbandry based economy.
History
The former name of Avcılar was Kahnes. This place name appears in Georgian sources as Kahnesi (კახნესი).
The settlement was part of the historical Tao region within Tao-Klarceti, a medieval Georgian cultural and political area. The Ottomans took control of the region from Georgian administration in the mid-16th century. In Ottoman tax registers dated 1555 and 1574, the settlement appears as "Kaknis" and is recorded not as an independent village but as a hamlet of Oşnak.
In a later period, Kahnes became a neighbourhood of Çorgenis village. In 1956, it was reorganized as an independent village under the name Avcılar. In the 1960 general population census, Avcılar was recorded as a village in the Ersis subdistrict of Yusufeli district with a population of 326. By 1965, the population had increased to 338, of which 185 people were literate.
Geography
Avcılar is located 159 km from Artvin city centre and 54 km from Yusufeli district centre.
Population
Population history of the village 2021 56 2020 66 2019 81 2018 95 2017 95 2016 101 2015 115 2014 117 2013 120 2012 140 2011 146 2010 154 2009 148 2008 164 2007 163 2000 160 1990 273 1985 294
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