Shams-e Hajjian (Persian: شمس حاجيان, romanized: Shams-e Ḩājjīān;[3] Syriac: Shimshājeyan)[4][a] is a village in Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District of the Central District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.[6]
Shams-e Hajjian
Persian: شمس حاجيان | |
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Village | |
  Shams-e Hajjian | |
| Coordinates: 37°27′42″N 45°10′08″E / 37.46167°N 45.16889°E[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| District | Central |
| Rural District | Baranduzchay-ye Shomali |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 489 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
History
editIn 1862, Shimshājeyan (today called Shams-e Hajjian) was inhabited by 30 Church of the East Christian families, who were served by the Church of Beni Shmūni but did not have a priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[4] There were 38 Church of the East Christian families at Shimshājeyan in 1877 with 1 church and no priests, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[7]
François Lesné, the Apostolic delegate of the Roman Catholic Church in Iran, recorded that the village was attacked by Kurds in May 1908.[8] Muhtasham es-Saltaneh, governor of Urmia, had provided weapons to an Assyrian committee led by Faramarz Khan with responsibility for the protection of Shimshājeyan, Dīzātakā, Ardishai, and Gūgtāpāh, which were designated as places of refuge for people from smaller villages.[9] During the battle, 3 Mawananians launched their own siege against 60 Kurds who were hidden in the poplar woods, according to the Lazarist Aristide Chatelet.[9]
There were 320 Chaldean Catholics with 1 priest and no church at Shimshājeyan in 1913 as part of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmia.[10] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War.[11] It was located in the Baranduz district.[7]
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Citations
- ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (1 November 2025). "Shams-e Hajjian, دهستان باراندوزچای شمالی, بخش مرکزی [Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District, Central District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 1 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.
- ↑ Shams-e Hajjian at GEOnet Names Server
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 334.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 430; Hellot-Bellier (2017), pp. 86, 89, 91.
- ↑ 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. 336.
- ↑ Hellot-Bellier (2017), pp. 89, 91.
- 1 2 Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 91.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 321.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
- ↑ 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.
- 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.
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