Chanchuri, Şenkaya

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Chanchuri (Georgian: ჭანჭური) was a village in the Tao region, located south of the village of Posik in the Şenkaya District of Erzurum Province, Turkey. The name Chanchuri is also the Georgian word for a type of plum, and the Ottoman spellings Cancur or Çançur may come from this plum.

Tao was part of Georgia in the Middle Ages, but the Ottomans seized the region after their 1549 campaign in Georgia. In the 1574 Ottoman land records there were two villages named JanJur in the Bardız district of Olti Province; one was deserted, and the other had six Muslim households. In the 1595 records, the village appears as Çançur-i Ulya (Upper Chanchuri), suggesting the existence of another village named Çançur-i Süfla (Lower Chanchuri). The village is also listed as Çançur in the 1694–1732 Ottoman cebe defter for Çıldır Eyaleti. In 1132 AH (1719/1720), it was in Misirsor and had an annual revenue of 8,000 akçe, belonging to the brothers Sadık, İbrahim and Yusuf.

Georgian scholar Sergi Jikia noted that a place called Chanchur northwest of Bardız on a Russian map is likely this village. By the 1886 Russian census, no village named Chanchuri existed in the Olti district, indicating that the village had disappeared before then.

This is a geographic note about a location in Şenkaya, Turkey.