قوجه ایلی
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editMorphologically from قوجه (koca, “big, large; elder, chief, husband”) + ایل (el, “nation, territory”), but the first part takes its name from Akça Koca, the Ottoman leader who conquered this territory from the Byzantine empire in the 14th century.
Proper noun
edit- Kocaeli (a province in East Marmara region, Turkey)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: Kocaeli
Further reading
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Kocaeli”, 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) “Kocaeli”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 473