AN INVESTIGATION ON THE HUMAN AND ECONOMIC PROPERTIES OF ALVAR (ERZURUM) VILLAGE IN TERMS OF GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW Cover Image

COĞRAFİ BAKIŞ AÇISINDAN ALVAR (ERZURUM) KÖYÜ’NÜN BEŞERİ VE EKONOMİK ÖZELLİKLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME
AN INVESTIGATION ON THE HUMAN AND ECONOMIC PROPERTIES OF ALVAR (ERZURUM) VILLAGE IN TERMS OF GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW

Author(s): Kürşat YURDİGÜL
Subject(s): Agriculture, Regional Geography, Sociology of Culture, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Dicle Üniversitesi, Sivil Havacılık Yüksekokulu
Keywords: Alvar; Pasinler; Village Settlement;

Summary/Abstract: Alvar village, which is on the west 47. km away from Erzurum city centre and forms the research area, is located in Erzurum-Kars Zone of East Anatolian Region and also surrounded with the borders of Pasinler administrative district and Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality. In this study, the physical and human characteristics of Alvar Village and, accordingly, the rational regarding the problems within the geographical principles such as distribution, relationship, comparison, and causality, to reveal the social, cultural and economic problems of the population and the results obtained accordingly. solution suggestions were tried to be brought. The dominating economic activities are cattle-breeding and grain agriculture which have been determined by the natural environmental conditions and socio-economic and sociocultural characteristics of people. The commercial activities in the research area are restricted within the village the Erzurum city centre and Pasinler district center. The most important and the most common element of trade is agricultural and animal products. However basic needs of people have been purchased from the city centre.

  • Issue Year: 4/2020
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 617-632
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish