قوجه ایلی
Ottoman Turkish
Kocaeli province
Etymology
Morphologically from قوجه (koca, “big, large; elder, chief, husband”) + ایل (el, “nation, territory”), but the first part takes its name from Akça Koca, the Ottoman leader who conquered this territory from the Byzantine empire in the 14th century.
Descendants
- Turkish: Kocaeli
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Kocaeli”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kocaeli”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 473
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