Qatur

Qotur (Persian: قطور, also Romanized as Qaţūr and Qoţūr; also known as Ghatoor, Kotur, Kutur, and Qutur)[3] is a city in, and the capital of, Qatur District of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Following the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, Qatur was handed over from the Ottoman empire to Iran.[4]

For the administrative disivions, see Qatur District and Qatur Rural District. For other places with a similar name, see Qatur.
Qatur
Persian: قطور
City
Qatur is located in Iran
Qatur
Qatur
Coordinates: 38°28′15″N 44°24′27″E[1]
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyKhoy
DistrictQatur
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total5,147
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

The city's name is said to be originating from a disease very common in dogs and goats in Turkish language (Qotur), and the warm water springs in this area helped to treat the disease and alleviate the symptoms . And this brings the idea that people living in this area may not have been kurds originally, rather they were immigrating from other parts of Turkey.

At the 2006 census, its population was 3,962 in 652 households, when it was a village.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 4,663 people in 1,000 households, by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.[6][7] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 5,147 people in 1,193 households.[2] It is adjacent to the Iran–Turkey border and is populated by Kurds of the Shakak tribe.[8][9]

Climate

Due to its elevation at 1,961m (6,433ft) above sea level, Qatur has a cold and temperate continental mediterranean climate (Köppen: Dsb). Winters are cold and wet while summers are warm and far dryer. The average annual temperature in Qotur is 6.9°C (44.4°F). Precipitation here is about 414mm (16.3in) per year.

References
  1. OpenStreetMap contributors (5 March 2023). "City, Khoy County" (Map). OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  2. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016)". AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 04. Archived from the original (Excel) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. Qatur can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3080424" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
  4. Bajalan, Djene Rhys (2019). "Kurdish Responses to Imperial Decline: The Kurdish Movement and the End of Ottoman Rule in the Balkans (1878 to 1913)". Kurdish Studies. 7: 51–71. doi:10.33182/ks.v7i1.481. S2CID 195539932.
  5. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)". AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 04. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  6. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011)" (Excel). Iran Data Portal (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 04. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  7. Official News Bulletin (in Persian)
  8. Ramazani, Rouhollah K. (1966). The Northern Tier: Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. Van Nostrand. p. 35.
  9. "قطور" (in Persian). Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
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