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The name Canik came from The Laz people = Č’ani see
Macrones article: Strabo (xii.3.18) remarks, in passing, that the people formerly called Macrones bore in his day the name of Sanni, a claim supported also by Stephen of Byzantium, though Pliny speaks of the Sanni and Macrones as two distinct peoples. By the 6th century they were known as the Tzanni (Ancient Greek: Τζάννοι). / The Greek language has no "ch" sound so they used "s" or "tz" sounds... see
Laz people article: The Laz, Lazi (ლაზი) or Lazepe (ლაზეფე) in Laz, Lazlar in Turkish, Lazi (ლაზი) or Č’ani (ჭანი) in Georgian are an ethnic group native to the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia. One of the chief tribes of ancient kingdom of Colchis, / Laz people = Č’ani = Sanni /Tzanni > the name of Canik Region! But The Beyliks of Canik were Turkish Beyliks! At that time Laz people were not living in Samsun / Canik Region.
Böri (
talk) 14:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)reply
So what ? Do we have check search engines to create an article ? Besides Beylik of Canik appears both in yahoo and google. -s ending only refers to plural of the noun phrase.
Nedim Ardoğa (
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Requested move 22 August 2021
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Support: Although there are
no Ngrams for either name (throwing some doubt on whether this topic is really notable), there are 766 ghits for "beyliks of canik" -wikipedia vs 9 ghits for "beyliks of djanik" -wikipedia.
Havelock Jones (
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