Sındıran is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Şenkaya, Erzurum Province in Turkey.Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its population is 96 (2022).
The historical name of Sındıran is Agaraki. Agaraki (აგარაკი), a Georgian place name, means field, village in Old Georgian."აგარაკი" - A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary, London, 2006, 2 column ISBN 0-9535878-3-5 This place name entered in Turkish language as Egerek. Indeed, it appears as Egerek (اكرك) in the 1595 Ottoman land-survey register (mufassal defter) and in the 1928 Ottoman village list. Under the influence of Armenian, the name of the village was also written as "Akriyak".გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 column, III. column (1958), pp. 568.Son Teşkilat-i Mülkiyede Köylerimizin Adları (Ottoman Turkish), Istanbul, 1928, p. 226.
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