Balowlan (Persian: بالولان, also Romanized as Bālowlān;[1] Syriac: Bālūlan)[2][a] 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.[4]
History
In 1877, Bālūlan (today called Balowlan) was inhabited by 30 Church of the East families and had one church.[2] The Christians of Bālūlan helped Assyrian and Armenian refugees who had fled the Hamidian massacres.[5] It was reported in 1910 that the village had been seized by Kurds and the village's Christian population had taken refuge at Urmia.[6] In 1914, there were 200 Assyrian households at Bālūlan.[3] On 1 October 1914, Turco-Kurdish troops set fire to the village amidst the Sayfo and the inhabitants fled to Urmia.[7]
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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".
- ^ a b Wilmshurst (2000), p. 307.
- ^ a b 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.
