Hesar-e Babaganjeh (Persian: حصارباباگنجه, romanized: Ḩeşār-e Bābāganjeh;[1] Syriac: Haṣār d-Bābāganjā)[2][a] is a village in Nazlu-e Shomali Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 72, in 15 families.[4]
Hesar-e Babaganjeh
حصارباباگنجه | |
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Village | |
  Hesar-e Babaganjeh | |
| Coordinates: 37°43′00″N 45°04′00″E / 37.71667°N 45.06667°E | |
| Country |  Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| Bakhsh | Nazlu |
| Rural District | Nazlu-e Shomali |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 72 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4:30 (IRDT) |
History
editHaṣār d-Bābāganjā was inhabited by 4 Church of the East Christian families with no church or priest in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[5] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, noted that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War.[6] Prior to the First World War, there were 20 Assyrian houses at Haṣār d-Bābāganjā, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[3] It was located in the Anzel District.[5]
References
editNotes
Citations
- ↑ Hesar-e Babaganjeh at GEOnet Names Server
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 328.
- 1 2 Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
- ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 328–329.
Bibliography
edit- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- 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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