Satlu, West Azerbaijan

Satlu
ساعتلو
Village
Satlu is located in Iran
Satlu
Satlu
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°25′18″N 45°08′54″E / 37.42167°N 45.14833°E / 37.42167; 45.14833
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
BakhshCentral
Rural DistrictBaranduzchay-ye Shomali
Population
 (2006)
 • Total
77
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Satlu (Persian: ساعتلو, romanized: Sā‘tlū;[1] Syriac: Sāʿātlūi)[2][a] is a village in Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 77, in 29 families.[5]

History

In 1862, Sāʿātlūi (today called Satlu) with ʿĀlyābād was inhabited by 70 Church of the East Christian families who were served by the Church of Mār Ḥnānyā and 1 priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[6] It was located in the Baranduz District.[7] There were 44 Church of the East Christian families at Sāʿātlūi in 1877 with 1 church and no priests, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[7] Basil Nikitin recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War.[2] Prior to the First World War, there were 200 Assyrian houses at Sāʿātlūi, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[8]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Sā‘atlū, Saatlou, Saatlu, Sā‘atlū-ye Bīvaleh, and Saatlouwi.[3][4]

Citations

  1. ↑ Satlu at GEOnet Names Server
  2. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
  3. ↑ Satlu at GEOnet Names Server
  4. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417; Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 86.
  5. ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
  6. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 334.
  7. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 336.
  8. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.

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