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Yaghmur Ali

Yaghmur Ali
یغمورعلی
Village
Yaghmur Ali is located in Iran
Yaghmur Ali
Yaghmur Ali
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°41′51″N 45°06′44″E / 37.69750°N 45.11222°E / 37.69750; 45.11222
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
BakhshCentral
Rural DistrictBash Qaleh
Population
 (2006)
  Total
232
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
  Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Yaghmur Ali (Persian: یغمورعلی, romanized: Yaghmūr ‘Alī;[1] Syriac: Yāghmūralūi)[2][a] is a village in Bash Qaleh Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 232, in 72 families.[3]

History

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Yāghmūralūi was inhabited by 20 Church of the East Christian families in 1862 and was served by the Church of Mār Quriāqōs but did not have a priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah, at which time the village was served by the priest Paul of Qīzīlʿāshīq.[4] There were 18 Church of the East Christian families at Yāghmūralūi in 1877 with 1 church and no priests, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[5] It was located in the Anzel District.[2]

References

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Notes

  1. Also known as Yaghmūr A‘lá.[1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 Yaghmur Ali at GEOnet Names Server
  2. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 329.
  3. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
  4. Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 329–330.
  5. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.

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