Babarud, West Azerbaijan

Babarud
Persian: بابارود
Village
Babarud is located in Iran
Babarud
Babarud
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°24′00″N 45°14′06″E / 37.40000°N 45.23500°E / 37.40000; 45.23500[1]
CountryIran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
DistrictCentral
Rural DistrictTorkaman
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total
634
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Babarud (Persian: بابارود, romanized: Bābārūd)[3][a] is a village in Torkaman Rural District of the Central District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.[5]

History

A French Lazarist mission noted the presence of Catholics at Bābārūd in 1840.[6] It was inhabited by 60 Church of the East Christian families in 1862 with no priest or church, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[7] There were 115 Church of the East Christian families at Bābārūd in 1877 with no priest or church as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[8] François Lesné, the Apostolic delegate of the Roman Catholic Church in Iran, recorded in a letter to the Lazarist Emile Sontag at Tehran that Bābārūd was looted and burned by Kurds in 1908 and the church was ransacked.[9] In 1913, there were 120 Chaldean Catholics in the village, who had one church without a priest, as part of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmia.[10] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War.[11] Prior to the First World War, there were 130 Assyrian houses at Bābārūd, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[12] It was located in the Baranduz district.[8]

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 615 in 125 households.[13] The following census in 2011 counted 647 people in 164 households.[14] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 634 people in 181 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.[2]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Babari, Babaroud, and Bébaré.[4]

Citations

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (28 September 2024). "Babarud, دهستان ترکمان, بخش مرکزی [Torkaman Rural District, Central District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  2. 1 2 سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2016: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. ↑ Babarud at GEOnet Names Server
  4. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 430; Hellot-Bellier (2017), pp. 86, 89.
  5. ↑ Mousavi, Mir-Hossein (22 April 1987) [تاریخ تصویب (Approval date) 1366/02/02 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. ایجاد و تشکیل 20 دهستان شامل روستاها، مزارع و مکانهای در شهرستان ارومیه تابع استان آذربایجان غربی [‌Creation and formation of 20 rural districts including villages, farms and places in Urmia County under West Azerbaijan province]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. هیات وزیران [Council of Ministers]. شناسه [ID] 7DD016E4-E840-4986-9FDD-044DD3A0B2EE. شماره دوره [Course number] 66. Archived from the original on 2 November 2025. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  6. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 320–321.
  7. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 334.
  8. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 336.
  9. ↑ Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 89.
  10. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 321.
  11. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
  12. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
  13. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2006: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  14. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2011: West Azerbaijan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

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