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There is no information regarding the establishment of the village, which is located within the historical region of Tao-Klarceti.[3] The area in which Çatalköprü is located passed between the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuk Turks through the Middle Ages, until it came under Ottoman rule, under which it remained until the 20th century. It was considered a large village, containing 59 families, by 1595.[4] Although under Ottoman rule, Çatalköprü remained culturally Georgian at this time. However, a 1723 census records that the village was owned by brothers named Mehmed, Mustafa, Hüseyin, and Osman, suggesting that by this point it had become Islamified or, at least, had come under direct Muslim ownership.[4]
The village was occupied by the Russians during the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War, during which time the village consisted of roughly 40 households.[4] An 1888 census records a population of 487, all of whom it records as Turkish.[5] By 1917, the Georgian researcher Konstantine Martvileli, on his visit to the Ardahan region, found the village to have been abandoned.[6] Following the collapse of the Russian Empire, the village came within the territory of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia; in the wake of the Red Army's invasion of Georgia, the Treaty of Moscow, signed on March 16, 1921, included the village within the borders of Turkey.[7] A village with the name of Çatalköprü had been re-established by 1933.[8]
Population
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1985
969
—
1990
732
−5.46%
1997
517
−4.85%
2007
333
−4.30%
2012
314
−1.17%
2017
269
−3.05%
2022
218
−4.12%
Source: 1985 census,[9] 1990 census,[10] 1997 census[11] and TÜIK (2007-2022)[2]
References
^Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
