Urmia Plain

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] It contains the city of Urmia.

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

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

See also

References
  1. TTO Provinces
  2. 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.
  3. 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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