Saralan

Saralan
سارالان
Village
Saralan is located in Iran
Saralan
Saralan
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°26′24″N 45°09′06″E / 37.44000°N 45.15167°E / 37.44000; 45.15167
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
BakhshCentral
Rural DistrictBaranduzchay-ye Shomali
Population
 (2006)
 • Total
319
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Saralan (Persian: سارالان, romanized: Sārālān; also known as Sārān) is a village in Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. As the 2006 census, its population was 319, with 89 families.

History

In 1862, Sārālān was inhabited by 35 Church of the East Christian families, who did not have a priest or a church, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah. Edward Lewes Cutts noted there were 35 Church of the East Christian families in 1877, with no priest or church. It was located in the Baranduz District. Basil Nikitin recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War. Prior to the First World War, there were 100 Assyrian houses at Sārālān, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.

References

  1. ↑ Saralan at GEOnet Names Server
  2. ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 334.
  4. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 336.
  5. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
  6. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.

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