چناق قلعه

Ottoman Turkish

Çanakkale province

Alternative forms

• چناق قلعه‌سی (Çanak Kalʿesi)

Etymology

From چناق (çanak, “earthenware pot, bowl”) + قلعه (kalʿe, “fortress”), so named from the great manufacture of coarse earthenware carried on in and around the town.

Proper noun

چناق قلعه • (Çanak Kalʿe)

1. Çanakkale (a city and province in the West Marmara region, Turkey)

Descendants

• Turkish: Çanakkale
  • → English: Çanakkale

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Çanakkale”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چناق قلعه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 731
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Çanakkale”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 170