Urmia Plain

Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family making butter in Urmia Plain (Mawana), Persia, date unknown

Urmia Plain is a region in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It lies between Lake Urmia to the east, and the Turkish border to the west.[1]

The inhabitants of the Urmia Plain are Azerbaijanis, in addition to some Kurds, Assyrians and Armenians, with the latter two having a historic presence in the region.[2][3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ TTO Provinces
  2. ↑ Arianne Ishaya (7 October 2010). Familiar Faces in Unfamiliar Places. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 244–. ISBN 978-1-4535-6746-3.
  3. ↑ Adam H. Becker (2 March 2015). Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism. University of Chicago Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-226-14531-0.
  4. ↑ George David Malech (1910). History of the Syrian Nation and the Old Evangelical-apostolic Church of the East: From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time. Gorgias Press LLC. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-59333-408-6.


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