Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family making butter in Urmia Plain (Mawana), Persia, date unknown
Urmia Plain (Persian: جلگه ارومیه; Azerbaijani: Urmu düzü) is a region in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It lies between Lake Urmia to the east, and the Turkish border to the west.[1] It contains the city of Urmia.
The inhabitants of the Urmia Plain are Azerbaijani people and Kurds with a minority of Assyrian and Armenians.[2][3]
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^Adam H. Becker (2 March 2015). Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism. University of Chicago Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-226-14531-0.
^George David Malech (1910). History of the Syrian Nation and the Old Evangelical-apostolic Church of the East: From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time. Gorgias Press LLC. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-59333-408-6.
UrmiaPlain (Persian: جلگه ارومیه; Azerbaijani: Urmu düzü) is a region in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It lies between Lake Urmia to the east...
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their regiments deep into Persia and stationed themselves around the Urmiaplain, where Coan was stationed. As a result, an estimated 20,000 Armenians...
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Nevertheless other flags continued in use – the civil flag and ensign (plain green-white-red stripes) and the state flag and ensign (the same stripes...
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villages, and the attackers neared Urmia. Due to Ottoman attacks, thousands of Christians living along the border fled to Urmia. Others arrived in Persia after...
town founded in northwestern Iran. The city stood somewhere south of Lake Urmia, and it has been postulated that the Persian nobleman Atropates chose the...
flows into the southern end of Lake Urmia. The Kauter and Beytas Rivers originate from the southern heights of the plain and run to the north in parallel...
known as the Zola Chai is a river in Iran, flowing into Lake Urmia. It runs north of Urmia and west of Salmas city in West Azerbaijan province. Rising...
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