Sulha-Hozyar Historical Saltworks are another documented component of the former Siirt Sanjak’s salt economy. Historical records preserve both well and evaporation-unit counts for the site.
Twenty-One Wells and 125 Pans
The Turkish inventory records 21 wells and 125 taba or evaporation pans. Together, these figures describe a production system based on collecting brine from several points and concentrating it over a wide evaporation area.
The counts are historical data and should not be assumed to describe the site’s present physical condition.
Rock-Salt Indications
Historical descriptions of the area also refer to rock-salt traces. Such observations are geologically significant because saline springs can be produced where groundwater interacts with buried or exposed halite-bearing evaporites.
A surface indication alone does not establish the size of a subsurface rock-salt resource; modern geological investigation would be required.
Ottoman Salt Economy
Salt production was closely monitored because it was important for taxation and regional supply. Administrative systems connected local producers with state monopoly structures and controlled trade routes.
This economic setting shaped both the organisation of work and the documentation that survives today.
Atlas Context
Sulha-Hozyar is presented as a distinct historical entry rather than merged with neighbouring Şirvan saltworks. This preserves the terminology and production geography recorded in historical sources.