Tortum

Tortum is a town and area of Erzurum Province operating at a profit Sea locale of Turkey. The populace is 4,507 starting at 2010. There are 4 diverse ethnic gathering in the region. Tortum was a piece of the region known as Upper Tao and was led by Romans, Persians, Georgians, Armenians and the Byzantines. Between the 13^th and 17^th century it was a piece of the Georgian realm of Samtskhe-Saatabago. It was initial an Ottoman vassal in the mid sixteenth century and was added in 1550. The zone of Tortum was challenged by the Safavids and the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth seventeenth century yet stayed Ottoman after 1625.
Tortum was a sanjak in Erzurum Eyalet. The district was in the early Ottoman time frame to a great extent Christian yet procured a Muslim greater part in the mid 18^th century. During World War I, Ottoman troops crossed Tortum in the appalling Battle of Sarikamish. At that point the Russians involved the town and held it somewhere in the range of 1915 and 1917. After the February upheaval of 1917 they exited it to the Armenians. The Ottoman armed force propelled some time later and caught Tortum on 16 March 1918. The town has a demolished fortification.