Balowlan

Balowlan
Persian: بالولان
Village
Balowlan is located in Iran
Balowlan
Balowlan
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°32′47″N 44°46′07″E / 37.54639°N 44.76861°E / 37.54639; 44.76861
CountryIran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
DistrictSilvaneh
Rural DistrictTargavar
Population
 (2016)
 • Total
351
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Balowlan (Persian: بالولان, romanized: Bālowlān; Syriac: Bālūlan) is a village in Targavar Rural District of Silvaneh District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

History

Bālūlan (today called Balowlan) is tentatively identified with the village of Beʿellawin from which the priest-scribe Wardā (d. 1757) came. A manuscript was copied at the Church of Mart Maryam, Mār Thomas, and Mār Yōḥannān at Bālūlan in 1824 by the archdeacon Gīwārgīs, son of Zayʿā, son of the priest Lagin, of the family of the bishop Yōḥannān. In 1877, Bālūlan was inhabited by 30 Church of the East Christian families and had one church. The Christians of Bālūlan helped Assyrian and Armenian refugees who had fled the Hamidian massacres. The deacon Ablaḥad of Bālūlan was killed helping to repel a Kurdish attack on Mawānā in 1903. It was reported in 1910 that Bālūlan had been seized by Kurds and the village's Christian population had taken refuge at Urmia. Prior to the First World War, there were 200 Assyrian houses at Bālūlan, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922. On 1 October 1914, Turco-Kurdish troops set fire to the village amidst the Sayfo and the inhabitants fled to Urmia.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 309 in 57 households. The following census in 2011 counted 253 people in 56 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 351 people in 85 households.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Ba‘lūlan and Baloulan.

Citations

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (4 November 2025). "Balowlan, دهستان ترگور, بخش سیلوانه [Targavar Rural District, Silvaneh District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ Balowlan at GEOnet Names Server
  4. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 307.
  5. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417; Al-Jeloo (2015), p. 18.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 308.
  8. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 309.
  9. ↑ Hellot-Bellier (2017), pp. 84–85.
  10. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 310.
  11. ↑ Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 92.
  12. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
  13. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 98; Yacoub (2016), p. 41.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ 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.

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