Dernekpazarı (formerly: Kondu, Kondualtı) is a municipality and district of Trabzon Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. Its area is 89 km2, and its population is 3,761 (2022). The current mayor of the town is Mehmet Aşık (AKP). Dernekpazarı is part of the Solaklı river valley system; it lies between the coastal Of district and the alpine Çaykara district.
History
The history of Dernekpazarı is closely related to the history of the Trabzon, the largest city of the Black Sea Region. Depending who ruled the Trabzon Province, the hill country came under Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman sovereignty. The population consisted largely of Pontic Greeks who converted to Islam during the 17th and 18th centuries. Currently the Of dialect of Pontic Greek (locally called 'Romeyka') is still spoken in the villages and nearly all locally current place names are in Greek. A few residents of the district who retained their Christian faith at the beginning of the 20th century were resettled in the town of Nea Trapezounta, near Katerini in Greece, in the wake of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923.
Composition There are 14 neighbourhoods in Dernekpazarı District (Pontic Greek names in brackets):Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
Akköse (Ζένο) Çalışanlar (Καλανός) Çayırbaşı (Χαβάσο) Gülen (Βυζίρ) Günebakan (Ζενόζενα) Güney Kondu (Κοντού) Merkez Ormancık (Μακιδάνος) Taşçılar (Φώτγκενε) Tüfekçi (Αρσέλα) Yenicami Yenice (Μαρλαδάς) Zincirlitaş (Βετζονά)
References
External links District governor's official website