Qarah Aghaj, Urmia

Qarah Aghaj
Persian: قره اغاج
Village
Qarah Aghaj is located in Iran
Qarah Aghaj
Qarah Aghaj
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°28′21″N 45°08′45″E / 37.47250°N 45.14583°E / 37.47250; 45.14583[1]
CountryIran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
DistrictCentral
Rural DistrictBaranduzchay-ye Shomali
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total
1,505
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Qarah Aghaj (Persian: قره اغاج, romanized: Qarah Āghāj;[3] Syriac: Qārāghāj)[4][a] is a village in, and the capital of, Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.[6]

History

In 1862, Qārāghāj was inhabited by 43 Church of the East Christian families who were served by the Church of Beni Shmūni but had no priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[4] There were 30 Church of the East Christian families at Qārāghāj with 1 priest and 1 church, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[7] Basil Nikitin recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War.[8] Prior to the First World War, there were 70 Assyrian houses at Qārāghāj, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[5] It was located in the Baranduz District.[7]

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,554 in 413 households.[9] The following census in 2011 counted 1,246 people in 411 households.[10] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,505 people in 492 households.[2]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Karaghadj or Qareh Āghāj.[3][5]

Citations

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (28 September 2024). "Qarah Aghaj, دهستان باراندوزچای شمالی, بخش مرکزی [Baranduzchay-ye Shomali 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. 1 2 Qarah Aghaj at GEOnet Names Server
  4. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 334.
  5. 1 2 Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
  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. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 336.
  8. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
  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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