Qareh Jalu
Qareh Jalu
قرهجلو | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Qareh Jalu Location within Iran | |
| Coordinates: 37°44′17″N 45°08′48″E / 37.73806°N 45.14667°E | |
| Country |  Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| Bakhsh | Nazlu |
| Rural District | Nazlu-e Shomali |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 108 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4:30 (IRDT) |
Qareh Jalu (Persian: قرهجلو, romanized: Qareh Jalū;[1] Syriac: Qārājālū)[2][a] is a village in Nazlu-e Shomali Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 108, in 29 families.[4] The village has at least one Armenian church.[5]
History
The priest Ṣlībō, son of Gammō, from the Taimar district, copied a manuscript at Qārājālū in 1801.[6] Qārājālū with Ābājālūi was inhabited by 200 Church of the East Christian families in 1862 and was served by the Church of Mart Maryam and 3 priests, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[7] There were 80 Church of the East Christian families at Qārājālū with 1 priest and 1 church in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[8] The scribe-priest Giwārgīs of Qārājālū copied a manuscript in 1877.[6] The priest Laʿzar of Qārājālū copied a manuscript at Rome in 1886.[6]
The Church of Mār Giwārgīs at Qārājālū was noted by Anglican missionaries in 1893.[8] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, noted that Qārājālū was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War.[2] Prior to the First World War, there were 300 Assyrian houses at Qārājālū, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[9] It was located in the Anzel district.[2] The villagers were massacred amidst the Sayfo.[10]
References
Notes
Citations
- 1 2 Qareh Jalu at GEOnet Names Server
- 1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 328.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417; Yacoub (2016), p. 45; Amurian & Kasheff (1986).
- ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
- ↑ Amurian & Kasheff (1986).
- 1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 332.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 329.
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
- ↑ Yacoub (2016), p. 45.
Bibliography
- Amurian, Andre; Kasheff, Manouchehr (1986). "ARMENIANS OF MODERN IRAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- 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.
- Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 November 2024.