تونج ایلی
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom تونج (tunc), variant of توج (tuc, “bronze”), + ایل (il, el, “country; tribe, nation”). Before 1935 the province was known as درسم (dersim), while the city was called قلان (kalan), but since both names were deemed non-Turkish the government changed them to the current one.
Proper noun
edit- Tunceli (a city and province in Central East Anatolia, Turkey)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: Tunceli
Further reading
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Tunceli”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Tunceli”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 764