Targavar Rural District

Targavar Rural District (Persian: دهستان ترگور, Syriac: ܬܪܓܘܪ, romanized: Targawar) is a rural district (dehestan) in Silvaneh District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.[1] At the 2006 census, its population was 7,893, in 1,344 families.[2] The rural district has 26 villages. The district was home to a significant Assyrian population before the Assyrian genocide, but is mostly populated by Herki Kurds today.[3][4][5]

Targavar Rural District

دهستان ترگور
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
DistrictSilvaneh
Population
 (2006)
  Total7,893

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References

  1. Iranian National Committee for Standardization of Geographical Names website (in Persian)
  2. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)". Islamic Republic of Iran. Archived from the original (Excel) on 2011-11-11.
  3. Travis, Hannibal (December 2006). "Native Christians Massacred: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I" (PDF). Florida International University College of Law: 333.
  4. Borhanedin A. Yassin (1995). Vision Or Reality?: The Kurds in the Policy of the Great Powers, 1941-1947. Lund University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780862383893.
  5. Kahn, Margaret (1980). Children of the jinn: in search of the Kurds and their country. Seaview Books. pp. 48. ISBN 9780872235649.

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