Alvach
Alvach
الواچ | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Alvach | |
| Coordinates: 37°34′05″N 45°01′16″E / 37.56806°N 45.02111°E | |
| Country |  Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| Bakhsh | Central |
| Rural District | Rowzeh Chay |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 5,320 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4:30 (IRDT) |
Alvach (Persian: الواچ, romanized: Alvāch;[1] Syriac: Alwāj)[2][a] is a village in Rowzeh Chay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 5,320, in 1,075 families.[4] It is inhabited by Kurds.[5]
History
[edit]Alwāj was noted by Anglican missionaries in 1893.[6] There were 92 Church of the East Christian families with 1 church in 1914 when visited by the priest Mirzā Benjamin Kaldāni.[6] It was located in the Baranduz district.[6] Prior to the First World War, there were 70 Assyrian houses at Alwāj, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[7] In October 1914, amidst the Sayfo, after Russian forces had withdrawn to Urmia and the villagers had fled to the city, Turco-Kurdish troops set fire to Alwāj and killed those who had remained behind.[8] Headstones in the former Christian graveyard in the village were still extant in 2008 albeit they had been damaged by Kurds who celebrated fire festivals in connection with Nowruz there.[5]
References
[edit]Notes
Citations
- 1 2 Alvach at GEOnet Names Server
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), Map 7: East Syrian Villages in the Ūrmi Region.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333; Gaunt (2006), pp. 98, 417.
- ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
- 1 2 Al-Jeloo (2010), pp. 9–10.
- 1 2 3 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 98; Yacoub (2016), p. 41.
Bibliography
[edit]- Al-Jeloo, Nicholas (2010). "Evidence in Stone and Wood: The Assyrian/Syriac History and Heritage of the Urmia Region in Iran, as Reconstructed from Epigraphic Evidence". Parole de l’Orient. 35: 1–27. Retrieved 4 July 2026.
- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913 (PDF). Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
- Yacoub, Joseph (2016). Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History. Translated by James Ferguson. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
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