Alvach

Alvach

الواچ
Alvach الواچ
Village
	Alvach Location within Iran
	Coordinates: 37°34′05″N 45°01′16″E / 37.56806°N 45.02111°E
Country	Iran
Province	West Azerbaijan
County	Urmia
Bakhsh	Central
Rural District	Rowzeh Chay
Population (2006)
• Total	5,320
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Alvach (Persian: الواچ, romanized: Alvāch; Syriac: Alwāj) is a village in Rowzeh Chay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,320, in 1,075 families. It is inhabited by Kurds.

History

Alwāj was noted by Anglican missionaries in 1893. There were 92 Church of the East Christian families with 1 church in 1914 when visited by the priest Mirzā Benjamin Kaldāni. It was located in the Baranduz district. Prior to the First World War, there were 70 Assyrian houses at Alwāj, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922. In October 1914, amidst the Sayfo, after Russian forces had withdrawn to Urmia and the villagers had fled to the city, Turco-Kurdish troops set fire to Alwāj and killed those who had remained behind. Headstones in the former Christian graveyard in the village were still extant in 2008 albeit they had been damaged by Kurds who celebrated fire festivals in connection with Nowruz there.

References

Notes

↑ Also known as Alwach, Alwatch, Alwatshe, and Alvāj.

Citations

1 2 Alvach at GEOnet Names Server
↑ Wilmshurst (2000), Map 7: East Syrian Villages in the Ūrmi Region.
↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333; Gaunt (2006), pp. 98, 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 Al-Jeloo (2010), pp. 9–10.
1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 98; Yacoub (2016), p. 41.

Bibliography

Al-Jeloo, Nicholas (2010). "Evidence in Stone and Wood: The Assyrian/Syriac History and Heritage of the Urmia Region in Iran, as Reconstructed from Epigraphic Evidence". Parole de l’Orient. 35: 1–27. Retrieved 4 July 2026.
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.
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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[4] Also known as Alwach, Alwatch, Alwatshe, and Alvāj.

[GEOnet3-1] 1 2 Alvach at GEOnet Names Server

[FOOTNOTEWilmshurst2000Map_7:_East_Syrian_Villages_in_the_Ūrmi_Region-2] Wilmshurst (2000), Map 7: East Syrian Villages in the Ūrmi Region.

[FOOTNOTEWilmshurst2000333Gaunt200698,_417-3] Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333; Gaunt (2006), pp. 98, 417.

[5] "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.

[FOOTNOTEAl-Jeloo20109–10-6] 1 2 Al-Jeloo (2010), pp. 9–10.

[FOOTNOTEWilmshurst2000333-7] 1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.

[FOOTNOTEGaunt2006417-8] Gaunt (2006), p. 417.

[FOOTNOTEGaunt200698Yacoub201641-9] Gaunt (2006), p. 98; Yacoub (2016), p. 41.

Alvach الواچ
Village
Alvach Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°34′05″N 45°01′16″E / 37.56806°N 45.02111°E / 37.56806; 45.02111
Country	Iran
Province	West Azerbaijan
County	Urmia
Bakhsh	Central
Rural District	Rowzeh Chay
Population (2006)
• Total	5,320
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+4:30 (IRDT)