Chaldoran County ( fa, شهرستان چالدران) is located in
West Azerbaijan province,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. The capital of the county is
Siah Cheshmeh
Siah Cheshmeh ( fa, سيه چشمه; also Romanized as Sīāh Cheshmeh, Seyah Cheshmah, Siāh Chashmeh, and Sīyah Cheshmeh; also known as ( az, Qareh Eynī or Kara Aineh.) is a city and capital of Chaldoran County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran ...
, ( fa, سيه چشمه, links=no) or Qara Aineh. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 143,205, in 31,291 households.
[ Retrieved 2 November 2022] At the 2016 census, the county's population was 45,060, in 11,970 households.
Chaldoran is one of the tourist areas of West Azerbaijan because of its cold weather in winter and cool in summer.
History
Chaldoran is the site of the historic
Battle of Chaldiran
The Battle of Chaldiran ( fa, جنگ چالدران; tr, Çaldıran Savaşı) took place on 23 August 1514 and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed Eastern Anatolia and ...
, which took place in 1514 between the armies of
Ottoman Sultan Selim I and
Safavid Shah Ismail I on the narrow plain outside of the town. The Ottoman army had the advantage of using firearms as well as superiority in size, and defeated the Safavid army for the first time.
After the Ottomans took this area, they resettled many of the Kurdish tribes further west.
Holy Tatavous Church (Ghare Kelisa) or St. Thaddeus's is in Chaldoran district, 7 km north east of the town of Seyah Cheshmah.
Administrative divisions
Economy
The expansion of pastures and cultivable lands has given this region the opportunity of enjoying prosperous cattle breeding, agriculture and apiculture with highest rate of job creation in the region. According to the census of the year 2003, population of Chaldoran district is 46,700; 33.5 percent of whom live in urban areas and 66.5 percent are rural and tribal settlers. Chaldoran's Wednesday Market (Chaharshanbeh Bazar) enjoys a particular fame for various types of cattle, agricultural, farming products and local handicrafts. The most important tourism attractions of this city are : Holy Tatavous Church (Ghareh Kelisa), Tomb of shahid sedreddin shirazi, Tombs of Martyrs in chaldoran City and Zarzar Church in Baroum Village
References
Counties of West Azerbaijan Province
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