ŞANLIURFA İLİ’NDE DÖNEMLİK VE GEÇİCİ BİR YERLEŞME: HOLLİK

Abstract

With openings on their walls, near to roads and waters and with also appearance different from study area’s dwellings call attention to in the sides of cotton fields which are one of the irrigated agricultural lands in the South-eastern Anatolian Region, especially in the east of Euphrates. During the land surveys done for long and different times we have seen these kinds of dwellings made up of sun-dried bricks, briquettes, rocks, reeds and rushes. The increases in holliks numbers are subject to time and irrigated land expansion, so they have spatially widespread diffusion areas. The dwellings in research area are called as hollik by the people living in them. Same of the holliks stand on the same palace and are used for a long time, some, however, are seasonally moved. Although individually constructed on the sides of fields, holliks have been, recently, seen as side by side units with more than one hollik in the quarter where irrigation is applied. In these respects mentioned above, holliks are typical settlements peculiar to the study area. In addition to cotton holliks, there exist vegetable, peanut, herdsman holliks. Therefore, we have thought it will be appropriate to study the holliks with periodic and temporary settlement properties in Şanlıurfa province. To give precedence to how kinds of settlement units the holliks are, and to introduce them to the scientific world are the aim of this study

Keywords

• turkey
• south-eastern anatolien
• şanlıurfa
• settlement
• rural settlement