Ayenehlu ( fa, اينه لو, also
Romanized as Āyenehlū and Ainaloo) is a village in
Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District,
Minjavan District,
Khoda Afarin County,
East Azerbaijan Province,
Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 10, in 4 families.
The village's proximity to the summer camps of
Chaparli and
Aqdash has made it a prime destination for
ecotourism.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Ayenehlu was one of the 17 villages of
Arasbaran where Armenians lived.
[Report on India and Persia of the deputation: sent by the Board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. to visit these fields in 1921-22, p. 513] A wealthy
Armenian man built a mansion in 1907, which is known as Qantoor. After
World War II the
Armenians migrated to
Tabriz and
Tehran, and the village was populated by Muslims from the surrounding villages. By 1977, the village was abandoned. After the
Islamic Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...
some families returned. A
national park
A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
has been established in the territories of the former village.
The original Ayenehlu village was famous in three respects:
* An iron ore mine which provided an iron processing plant in the nearby
Abbasabad village;
* A swamp which harbored leeches used in traditional medicine,
*
Mohammad Qoli, known as ''Anjoman'', an impoverished landlord who had wasted his enormous wealth on a Russian trip. His memories from the pleasant journey had become part of folk culture in the region.
Arasbaran Forests.jpg, A view of Ayenehlu forests
Aynaloo June 2011.jpg, A view of Ayenehlu forests
Aynali monument.jpg, Qantoor; a historical landmark
References
Populated places in Khoda Afarin County
{{KhodaAfarin-geo-stub