Abstract:

Alanya, one of the districts of Antalya that stands out with its historical texture, has many permanent settlements such as villages, neighborhoods, locations, streets, and temporary settlements such as plateaus, valleys, mountains, bays, beaches and fountains, cemeteries, bridges, There are settlements built architecturally such as towers. All of these settlements have their own unique names in terms of toponymity. Turkish denominations have an important place in the place names of Alanya, which was conquered and named after by 1st Alaaddin Keykubad. We can say that most of the place names in Alanya are clan, family or family names. In addition to these, plant names, animal names, religious names, geographical names, color names, etc. There are many nomenclatures. When we add all these names, we come across 600 names in total in Alanya. Colors form an important layer in Turkish place names. Starting from historical texts, it is possible to trace the tradition of giving place names from colors. In the Orkhon Inscriptions, which are considered to be the first written documents of Turkish, ak (ak thermal “Ak Termel river” T I/25), kara (kara lake “Black lake” KT K/2), root (root tengri “Blue sky” N D/1, BK D/ 2; root öñ “Kök Ön river” T I/15) and place names were made with color adjectives such as yesil (yasil öküz “yellow river” KT D/1, BK D 15). Color names are created by highlighting the color elements in the land situation, vegetation and climate characteristics of the settlement area. In the researches on color names in Turkish dialects, it has been determined that black, white, crimson, green, and sarig are common in naming everywhere and everything, while the colors ala, root, gray and prairie, which take the second place, are used to name only certain objects. The names of black, white, green, red, sky, yellow are prominent in place names in Alanya. In this study, we will focus on these names and try to draw attention to the importance of color names in place naming. By analyzing the related names, we will reveal the forms of formation linguistically.

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