Balowlan
Balowlan (Persian: بالولان, also Romanized as Bālowlān; Syriac: Bālūlan) is a village in Targavar Rural District, Silvaneh District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. As of 2006, its population is 309, with 57 families.
History
In 1877, Bālūlan (today called Balowlan) was inhabited by 30 Church of the East families and had one church. The Christians of Bālūlan helped Assyrian and Armenian refugees who had fled the Hamidian massacres. It was reported in 1910 that the village had been seized by Kurds and the village's Christian population had taken refuge at Urmia. In 1914, there were 200 Assyrian households at Bālūlan. On 1 October 1914, Turco-Kurdish troops set fire to the village amidst the Sayfo and the inhabitants fled to Urmia.
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References
Notes
- ^ Alternatively transliterated as Baloulan.
Citations
- ^ Balowlan can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3807360" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
- ^ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 307.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
- ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20.
- ^ Hellot-Bellier (2017), pp. 84–85.
- ^ Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 92.
- ^ Gaunt (2006), p. 98; Yacoub (2016), p. 41.
Bibliography
- 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.
- Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
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