Jamalabad, Urmia

Jamalabad
Persian: جمال اباد
Village
Jamalabad is located in Iran
Jamalabad
Jamalabad
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 37°58′15″N 45°00′23″E / 37.97083°N 45.00639°E / 37.97083; 45.00639
CountryIran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
DistrictAnzal
Rural DistrictAnzal-e Shomali
Population
 (2016)
 • Total
158
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Jamalabad (Persian: جمال اباد, romanized: Jamālābād; Syriac: Jāmālābād) is a village in Anzal-e Shomali Rural District of Anzal District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

History

The Church of St Anne at Jāmālābād is believed to date to between the 4th and 7th century AD. In 1831, Yoḥannan, Church of the East bishop of Anzel, resided at Jamalabad instead of Gavlan, which had customarily been the residence of the bishop of Anzel. There were 33 Church of the East families who were served by one priest and the Church of Mār Yōḥannān at Jamalabad in 1862, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah. By 1877, the village was inhabited by 15 Church of the East families with 1 church but no priests, as per Edward Lewes Cutts. Jamalabad was attacked by Kurds in May and June 1908, at which time a small unit of Iranian troops was stationed there. Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War. Prior to the First World War, there were 300 Assyrian houses at Jamalabad, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922. It was located in the Anzel district.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 209 in 67 households. The following census in 2011 counted 213 people in 72 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 158 people in 60 households.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Also known as Djamalabad, Djamalawa, Jamāl-Ābād, Jamlav, and Sūlīng.

Citations

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (3 November 2025). "Jamalabad, دهستان انزل شمالی, بخش انزل [Anzal-e Shomali Rural District, Anzal District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 3 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. 1 2 Jamalabad at GEOnet Names Server
  4. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 319.
  5. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417; Al-Jeloo (2015), p. 18; Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 86.
  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. ↑ Al-Jeloo (2015), p. 18.
  8. 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 329.
  9. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.
  10. ↑ Hellot-Bellier (2017), p. 91.
  11. ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), pp. 328–329.
  12. ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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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