Chehreh Gosha
Chehreh Gosha
چهره گشا | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Chehreh Gosha Location within Iran | |
| Coordinates: 37°32′41″N 45°09′32″E / 37.54472°N 45.15889°E | |
| Country |  Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| Bakhsh | Central |
| Rural District | Bakeshluchay |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 243 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4:30 (IRDT) |
Chehreh Gosha (Persian: چهره گشا, romanized: Chehreh Goshā;[1] Syriac: Chahārgūshi)[2][a] is a village in Bakeshluchay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 243, in 61 families.[4]
History
Chahārgūshi was populated by 30 Church of the East Christian families in 1862 and was served by the Church of Mār ‘Abdīshō but did not have a priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[5] It was located in the Baranduz district.[5] There were 42 Church of the East Christian families with 1 priest and 1 church at Chahārgūshi in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[6] Chahārgūshi was inhabited by 500 Chaldean Catholics with 1 priest and 1 church in 1913 as part of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmia.[2] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, noted that Chahārgūshi was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War.[7] Prior to the First World War, there were 200 Assyrian houses at Chahārgūshi, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[8]
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Chehreh Gosha at GEOnet Names Server
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 321.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), pp. 417, 430.
- ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 334.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 336.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
Bibliography
- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913 (PDF). Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 30 October 2024.