Khaneshan
Khaneshan
خانشان | |
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Village | |
  Khaneshan Location within Iran | |
| Coordinates: 37°45′40″N 45°11′06″E / 37.76111°N 45.18500°E[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| District | Nazlu |
| Rural District | Tala Tappeh |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 295 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Khaneshan (Persian: خانشان, romanized: Khān-e Shān;[3] Syriac: Ḥānīshān)[4][a] is a village in Tala Tappeh Rural District of Nazlu District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.[6]
History
[edit]In 1862, Khaneshan with Sopurghan had a combined population of 172 Church of the East families and was served by two priests and the Church of Mār Giwārgīs.[7] Khaneshan was made part of the new Church of the East diocese of Sopurghan in 1874.[4] There were 40 Church of the East families at Khaneshan in 1877 with no priests or churches.[8] The village had a mixed population of Christians and Muslims prior to the First World War, according to the list prepared by Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia.[9] Prior to the First World War, there were 150 Assyrian houses at Khaneshan, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[10] It was located in the Anzel district.[7] Amidst the Sayfo, the village's Christian population, then consisting of 50 Armenian and Assyrian households, was slaughtered by Turks with no survivors.[11]
Demographics
[edit]Population
[edit]At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 448 in 129 households.[12] The following census in 2011 counted 349 people in 111 households.[13] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 295 people in 89 households.[2]
References
[edit]Notes
Citations
- ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (4 November 2025). "Khaneshan, دهستان نازلوشمالی, بخش نازلو [Tala Tappeh Rural District, Nazlu District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 4 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.
- 1 2 Khaneshan at GEOnet Names Server
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 314.
- ↑ Malick (2016); Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
- ↑ 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. 329.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 328–329.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
- ↑ Travis (2018), p. 147.
- ↑ 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.
- Malick, David G. (2016). "Sopurḡān". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- Travis, Hannibal, ed. (2018). The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies (PDF). Routledge. Retrieved 30 October 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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