GENÇ’İN (GENC/GİNC) TARİHİNE DAİR YENİ TESPİTLER
NEW DETECTIONS ABOUT GENÇ’S (GENC/GINC) HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: Kale Village in the Solhan district of Bingöl, which appears in archival documents in the form of Genc, Ginc, Gence, or Genç, was arranged as a sanjak (district), an administrative unit after the Battle of Çaldıran in which the Ottomans dominated Eastern Anatolia. Genç, located on the banks of the Murat River, has been flooded with dams being built. Archaeological excavations of Murat Tepe prior to the construction of the dams showed significant findings of the Middle Iron Age, Early Iron Age, and Early Bronze Age. It is understood that Genç, which was under the domination of civilizations such as Assyrian, Persian, Alexander the Great, Rome, Byzantine, and Sassanids, came under the control of the Muslims after Iyad b. Ganm captured Jabal-i Cur (Çapakçur) north of the Amid mountains in 638 AD. Genç, which was previously the field of the struggle of the Byzantine-Sassanid states, formed the Muslim-Byzantine borderline after the conquest of Iyâd b. Ganm. Genç is likely to have been affected by the attacks when Seljuk troops launched raids on Hashdiank (Bingöl) in 1049 AD. After that, Genç and its entourage, which were the scene of Seljuk-Byzantine rivalry, came under the control of the Artuqids from 1104 AD onwards. Thereafter, Genç were bound to the Ottomans by the Çaldıran War of 1514 AD, when forces such as the Zengids, Ayyubids, Khorezm-shahs, Mongols, Anatolian Seljuks, Aqqoyunlus, Qaraqoyunlus, and Safavids ruled with different periods. The Ottomans appointed the Suveydi chiefs to head the city, organizing Genç as a hukumet and yurtluk-ocaklık sanjak. The Suveydi chiefs, who were semi-independent in this sanjak, which was created as a different administrative unit, assumed the administration of the region until 1878 AD. The center of Genç, which was bound to Bitlis Province in 1878 AD, was transferred to Arduşin in 1887 AD for geographical, political, and military reasons, and in 1918 AD to its present location, known as Diyarbük (Sürekli) or Darayeni. This study aims to uncover Genç's history from the beginning to the Republic period.

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