Kavsi
Kavsi
Persian: كوسي | |
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Village | |
  Kavsi | |
| Coordinates: 37°40′37″N 45°00′04″E / 37.67694°N 45.00111°E[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| District | Nazlu |
| Rural District | Nazluchay |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 706 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Kavsi (Persian: كوسي, romanized: Kavsī;[3] Syriac: Kūsi)[4][a] is a village in Nazluchay Rural District of Nazlu District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.[6]
History
[edit]The priest Yōḥannān of Kūsi helped the American mission with translation work from the early 1830s until his death in 1845.[7] Kūsi was inhabited by 50 Church of the East Christian families and was served by the Church of Mart Maryam and 1 priest in 1862, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[8] There were 38 Church of the East Christian families and 1 church but no priest at Kūsi in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[9] The priest Bābā of Kūsi is also attested in 1886 as having helped the American mission with translations.[7] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War.[8] It was located in the Anzel district.[8] In 1915, amidst the Sayfo, the Turks perpetrated mass executions at Kūsi.[10]
Demographics
[edit]Population
[edit]At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 748 in 123 households.[11] The following census in 2011 counted 740 people in 159 households.[12] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 706 people in 161 households.[2]
References
[edit]Notes
Citations
- ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (3 November 2025). "Kavsi, دهستان نازلوچای, بخش نازلو [Nazluchay Rural District, Nazlu District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- 1 2 سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2016: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ↑ Kavsi at GEOnet Names Server
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 328.
- ↑ Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 86; Gaunt (2006), p. 119.
- ↑ Mousavi, Mir-Hossein (22 April 1987) [تاریخ تصویب (Approval date) 1366/02/02 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. ایجاد و تشکیل 20 دهستان شامل روستاها، مزارع و مکانهای در شهرستان ارومیه تابع استان آذربایجان غربی [Creation and formation of 20 rural districts including villages, farms and places in Urmia County under West Azerbaijan province]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. هیات وزیران [Council of Ministers]. شناسه [ID] 7DD016E4-E840-4986-9FDD-044DD3A0B2EE. شماره دوره [Course number] 66. Archived from the original on 2 November 2025. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 330.
- 1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 329.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 119.
- ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2006: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2011: West Azerbaijan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
Bibliography
[edit]- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Hellot-Bellier, Florence (2017). "The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century". In David Gaunt; Naures Atto; Soner O. Barthoma (eds.). Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire (PDF). pp. 70–99. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913 (PDF). Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
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