Gardabad

Gardabad
Persian: گردآباد
Village
Gardabad is located in Iran
Gardabad
Gardabad
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°38′19″N 45°03′07″E / 37.63861°N 45.05194°E / 37.63861; 45.05194[1]
CountryIran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
DistrictCentral
Rural DistrictNazluy-e Jonubi
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total
417
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Gardabad (Persian: گرداباد, romanized: Gardābād;[3] Syriac: Gardābād)[4][a] is a village in Nazluy-e Jonubi Rural District of the Central District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.[6] The village has at least one Armenian church.[7]

History

Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, noted that Gardābād was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War.[4] Prior to the First World War, there were 100 Assyrian houses at Gardābād, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[8] It was located in the Anzel District.[4]

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 537 in 127 households.[9] The following census in 2011 counted 332 people in 85 households.[10] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 417 people in 127 households.[2]

Notable people

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Gardabatt, Garūābād, and Giardābād.[3][5]

Citations

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (2 November 2025). "Bozlu, Asgarabad Tappeh, دهستان نازلوی جنوبی, بخش مرکزی [Nazluy-e Jonubi Rural District, Central District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  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. 1 2 Gardabad at GEOnet Names Server
  4. 1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 328.
  5. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417; Amurian & Kasheff (1986).
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Amurian & Kasheff (1986).
  8. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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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