Badelbu

Badelbu
بدلبو
Village
Badelbu is located in Iran
Badelbu
Badelbu
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°40′00″N 45°00′07″E / 37.66667°N 45.00194°E / 37.66667; 45.00194
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
BakhshNazlu
Rural DistrictNazluchay
Population
 (2006)
 • Total
328
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Badelbu (Persian: بدلبو, romanized: Badelbū; Syriac: Bādilbū) is a village in Nazluchay Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 328, in 74 families.

History

Bādilbū was inhabited by 5 Church of the East Christian families and had 1 priest but did not have a church in 1862, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah. There were 5 Church of the East Christian families with no church or priest at Bādilbū in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts. Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War. It was located in the Anzel district.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Badilbou.

Citations

  1. ↑ Badelbu at GEOnet Names Server
  2. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 328.
  3. ↑ Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 86.
  4. ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
  5. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 329.
  6. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.
  7. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 328–329.

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