Safarlu ( fa, صفرلو, also
Romanize
Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...
d as Şafarlū) is a village in
Keyvan Rural District
Keyvan Rural District ( fa, دهستان كيوان) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called ...
, in the
Central District of
Khoda Afarin County
Khoda Afarin County ( fa, شهرستان خداآفرین) is in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Khomarlu. At the 2006 census, the county's population (as Khoda Afarin District of Kaleybar County) was ...
,
East Azerbaijan Province
East Azerbaijan Province ( fa, استان آذربایجان شرقی ''Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi''; az-Arab, شرقی آذربایجان اوستانی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, ...
,
Iran
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. At the 2006 census, its population was 298, in 72 families.
In the wake of
White Revolution
The White Revolution ( fa, انقلاب سفید ''Enqelāb-e Sefid'') or the Shah and People Revolution ( fa, انقلاب شاه و مردم ''Enqelāb-e Shāh o Mardom'') was a far-reaching series of reforms resulting in aggressive moderniz ...
(early 1960s) a clan of
Mohammad Khanlu
Mohammad Khanlu (Moḥammad-Ḵānlū) ( محمد خانلو) is one of the six major Tribes of Arasbaran. It is a Turkicized Kurdish tribe dwelling for the most part in the Arasbaran region, in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Its summer quarte ...
tribe, comprising 55 households, used Safarlu as their winter quarters.
[P. Oberling, “The Tribes of Qarāca Dāġ,” Oriens 17, 1964, p. 69]
References
Populated places in Khoda Afarin County
Kurdish settlements in East Azerbaijan Province
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