Urmia Plain

Urmia Plain (Persian: جلگه ارومیه; Azerbaijani: Urmu düzü) is a region in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It lies between Lake Urmia to the east, and the Turkish border to the west.[1] It contains the city of Urmia.

Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family making butter in Urmia Plain (Mawana), Persia, date unknown

The inhabitants of the Urmia Plain are Azerbaijani people and Kurds with a minority of Assyrian and Armenians.[2][3]

See also

References
  1. TTO Provinces
  2. Adam H. Becker (2 March 2015). Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism. University of Chicago Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-226-14531-0.
  3. George David Malech (1910). History of the Syrian Nation and the Old Evangelical-apostolic Church of the East: From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time. Gorgias Press LLC. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-59333-408-6.

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