Sajike
Sajike is a vanished village in the Turkish part of the historical region of Samtskhe in Georgia. Its location was near the village of Söğütlükaya in the Posof district of Ardahan Province in Turkey.
History
The Georgian place name Sajike derives from the word "jiki" and meaning "land of the leopard".A small portion of the historical region of Samtskhe, where the village of Sajike is located, remains within the borders of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire captured Samtskhe, one of the regions that formed Georgia, in 1578.
The village of Sajike was also recorded as Sajike in the Ottoman land-survey register of 1595. At that time, this settlement was within the Güney district of Poshov liva, within the Vilayet-i Gürcistan of Ottoman province. The village was recorded as vacant, but a tax of 2,000 akçe was stipulated.
The village of Sajike had the same administrative status as Sajike in the Ottoman cebe defter of Çıldır Province, covering the period 1694-1732. In 1134 AH, the village was assigned to someone named Hasan, and a tax of 2,000 akçe was stipulated.
Georgian Turkologist Sergi Jikia, who published the Ottoman detailed register, noted that the village of Sajike is referred to as Sajike in Russian sources. However, the fact that Sajike was not listed as a village in the Poshov district of the Ardahan district in the Russian census of 1886 shows that it had ceased to be a village before this date.