THE PLACES THAT THE NAMES WERE CHANGED AND THEIR NEW NAMES IN THE 20TH CENTURY AT CAN？K FLAG

The name of the places is an important document that reflect the culture and the country of thepeoplewholivethere. Therefore, the Turkish peoplesettled in differentparts of the world and named those place sthat they ruled for a period of time related to their culture. Such a case continued during the Ottoman period. As the Ottomans were multinational State, eachnationor groups named their ownplaces with the names related to their culture. After the idea that appeared with the French Revolution, the state put some regulations and laws to provide thesecurityandtheunity of thestate. One of these ideas was Turkish nationalism. The first application wasthechanging of thenames of the placesall over the country. The application that started at that time was applied by changing the name of Canik (Samsun) sanjak