Gavlan ( fa, گولان, also
Romanize
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d as Gavlān) is a village in
Anzal-e Jonubi Rural District,
Anzal District
Anzal District ( fa, بخش انزل) is a district (bakhsh) in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bor ...
,
Urmia County
Urmia County ( fa, شهرستان ارومیه) is located in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Urmia
Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' ...
,
West Azerbaijan Province,
Iran
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. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,084, in 263 families.
The village was largely inhabited by
Assyrians until the
Assyrian genocide
The Sayfo or the Seyfo (; see below), also known as the Assyrian genocide, was the mass slaughter and deportation of Assyrian / Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish t ...
.
See also
*
St. John Church
References
Populated places in Urmia County
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