تونج ایلی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From 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

تونج ایلی • (tunc eli)

  1. Tunceli (a city and province in Central East Anatolia, Turkey)
    Synonyms: درسم (dersim), قلان (kalan) (obsolete)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Tunceli

Further reading

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