Urmia (Persian: ارومیه; pronounced [oɾumiˈje] ) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. In the Central District of Urmia County, it is...
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Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iran. The lake is located between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan in Iran, and west of the...
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- July 27, 1918) was Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmia (1890-1918), within the Chaldean Catholic Church. He was born on October...
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The Urmia clashes (9–10 February 1918) or the Urmia revolt was a series of clashes in the city of Urmia between the Assyrian Volunteers led by Agha Petros...
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seeing in Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province, north-west Iran. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Cathedral of St. Mary the Mother of God, in Urmia, Iran...
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The Battle of Urmia (or, Urumiyeh) was fought near Lake Urmia in north-western Persia between the Safavid and Ottoman empires and resulted in a decisive...
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Westminster Hospital Urmia (now Urmia University of Medical Sciences) Shahid Chamran Hall (central library) – of the University of Urmia Behnam House is part...
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The original Mannaean homeland was situated east and south of the Lake Urmia, roughly centered around modern-day Mahabad. The region came under Persian...
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Dunsterforce (section Urmia Crisis)
Savige, five officers and fifteen NCOs of Dunsterforce, set out towards Urmia and were caught up in an exodus of Assyrians, after the town had been captured...
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of Artemia dates back to the first half of the 10th century AD from Lake Urmia, Iran, with an example called by an Iranian geographer an "aquatic dog"...
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attack was made on Urmia, ostensibly by Kurdish Tribesmen. About the same time the Russians closed the Ottoman consulates in Urmia, Tabriz and Khoi, and...
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villages, and the attackers neared Urmia. Due to Ottoman attacks, thousands of Christians living along the border fled to Urmia. Others arrived in Persia after...
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northeastern Levant, which is a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern Iran through to the Nineveh Plains, Erbil, Kirkuk and Duhok...
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Men's volleyball Representing Japan FIVB Nations League 2024 Łódź Team 2023 Gdańsk Team Asian Championship 2023 Urmia Team...
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largest lake in the world, with an area of 26,000 km2 (10,000 sq mi) Lake Urmia, formerly with an area of 5,200 km2 (2,000 sq mi), but down to a tenth that...
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Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-42518-8. Iran-e-Bastan/Pirnia book 1 p. 873 See discussion on possible dates for the battle in the article Battle of the...
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city as 168,393 people in 47,974 households. The city lies south of Lake Urmia in a narrow valley 1,300 metres above sea level. Media related to Mahabad...
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islands are mainly located in the Persian Gulf. Iran has 102 islands in Urmia Lake, 427 in Aras River, several in Anzali Lagoon, Ashurade Island in the...
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Supurghan in the region of Urmia who converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 1898, through the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Urmia. Among all the tragedies...
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Foehn effect occurs in the West Azerbaijan province, Iran (around Lake Urmia) as manifested by the province's dry winters relative to those in the windward...
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Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Urmyā/Rezayeh/Urmia Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Teheran-Isfahan See also List of Catholic churches in Tehran and List...
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Eastern site located in the Qadar River valley, on the southern shore of Lake Urmia in northwest Iran. The city of Hasanlu was occupied consistently from the...
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with Matai, presumably Medians) are first mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia in the records of Shalmaneser III. The exact identity of the Parsuwash is...
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divided between present-day Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. In Iran, the Urmia Plain forms a thin margin of the ancestral Assyrian homeland in the north-west...
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communities that once lived between Lake Urmia and Mosul are not all mutually intelligible. In some places, for example Urmia, Christian Assyrians and Mizrahi...
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ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2021-06-16. (see Article 110 of the constitution). Axel Tschentscher. "ICL – Iran – Constitution"...
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marked the beginning of a period of acute Iraqi-Iranian tension that would see significant bloodshed and was to last until the Algiers Agreement of 1975...
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Arrapha/Beth Garmai (Kirkuk), Al Qosh, Tesqopa and Arbela (Erbil) in Iraq, Urmia in Iran, and Hakkari (a large region which comprises the modern towns of...
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(מנּי)) was an ancient kingdom located in northwestern Iran, south of Lake Urmia, around the 10th to 7th centuries BC. It neighbored Assyria and Urartu,...
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Simko Shikak (category People from Urmia)
the Baranduz river in the Urmia region of northwestern Iran. By 1920, parts of Iranian Azerbaijan located west of Lake Urmia were under his control. He...
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