Sam Salu

Sam Salu
سامسالو
Village
Sam Salu is located in Iran
Sam Salu
Sam Salu
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°37′55″N 45°05′29″E / 37.63194°N 45.09139°E / 37.63194; 45.09139
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
BakhshCentral
Rural DistrictNazluy-ye Jonubi
Population
 (2006)
 • Total
47
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Sam Salu (Persian: سامسالو, romanized: Sām Sālū; Syriac: Samsalūi) is a village in Nazluy-ye Jonubi Rural District in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census its population was 47 in 12 families.

History

Samsalūi (today called Sam Salu) was inhabited by 15 Church of the East Christian families and did not have a church or a priest in 1862, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah. It was located in the Anzel district.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Sāmsālū.

Citations

  1. 1 2 Sam Salu at GEOnet Names Server
  2. 1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 329.
  3. ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.

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