'''Sajike''' ([[Georgian language|Georgian]]: საჯიქე) is a vanished village in the Turkish part of the historical region of [[Samtskhe]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Its location was near the village of [[Söğütlükaya, Posof| Söğütlükaya]] (Hunamisi) in the Posof district of [[Ardahan Province]] in Turkey.<ref>[https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/312574 გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume III (1958), p. 464.]</ref>
==History== The Georgian place name Sajike (საჯიქე) derives from the word "jiki" (ჯიქი) and meaning "land of the leopard".<ref>[http://www.nplg.gov.ge/gwdict/index.php?a=term&d=46&t=248136 "ჯიქი" - ''A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary'', London, 2006, 2 volumes] ISBN 0-9535878-3-5</ref>
A small portion of the historical region of Samtskhe, where the village of Sajike is located, remains within the borders of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire captured Samtskhe, one of the regions that formed Georgia, in 1578.
The village of Sajike was also recorded as Sajike (ساجیكە) in the Ottoman land-survey register (''mufassal defter'') of 1595. At that time, this settlement was within the Güney district (''nahiye'') of Poshov liva, within the ''Vilayet-i Gürcistan'' of Ottoman province. The village was recorded as vacant, but a tax of 2,000 akçe was stipulated.<ref>[https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/312574 გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume II (1958), p. 464.]</ref><ref>[https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/312380 გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume II (1941), p. 323.]</ref>
The village of Sajike had the same administrative status as Sajike (ساجیكە) in the Ottoman ''cebe defter'' of Çıldır Province (''Eyalet-i Çıldır''), covering the period 1694-1732. In 1134 AH (1721/1722), the village was assigned to someone named Hasan, and a tax of 2,000 akçe was stipulated.<ref>[https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/399761 "ჩილდირის ვილაიეთის ჯაბა დავთარი : 1694-1732 წწ.", Tsisana Abuladze, Tbilisi, 1979, Register number: 168, 275.]</ref>
Georgian Turkologist [[Sergi Jikia]], who published the Ottoman detailed register, noted that the village of Sajike is referred to as Sajike (Саджике) in Russian sources.<ref>[https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/312574 გურჯისტანის ვილაიეთის დიდი დავთარი: გამოკვლევა: წიგნი III), Sergi Jikia, Tbilisi, 1947-1958, 3 volumes, volume III (1958), p. 464.]</ref> However, the fact that Sajike was not listed as a village in the Poshov district of the Ardahan district in the Russian census of 1886 shows that it had ceased to be a village before this date.<ref>[https://elib.rgo.ru/handle/123456789/231435 ''Свод статистических данных о населении Закавказскаго края, извлеченных из посемейных списков 1886 г.'', Tbilisi, 1893, "Kars oblast" - 348-402]</ref>
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[[Category:Villages in Posof District]] [[Category:Tao-Klarjeti]]