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I came and found my homeland abandoned, its feet fled, a poem by the nineteenth-century poet Bayburtlu Zihnî. The work preserves the formal characteristics of folk poetry tradition and possesses the qualities of a city elegy in content. Centered on the destruction Bayburt suffered after war and occupation, this poem conveys a social catastrophe through an individual narrative and thus belongs to the body of folk literature texts that unite aesthetic expression with historical testimony. Historic