Gug Tappeh () is a village in
Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District of the
Central District of
Urmia County
Urmia County () is in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Urmia.
Demographics Ethnicity
The county is mainly populated by Azerbaijanis, Persians and Kurds
Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peopl ...
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West Azerbaijan
West Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia.
It is in the Azerbaijan (Iran), northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey (Ağrı Province, Ağrı, Hakkâri Pr ...
province,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
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Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,804 in 482 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 2,439 people in 706 households.
The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 2,850 people in 836 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.
Notable people
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Malek-Yonan family
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George Malek-Yonan
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Rosie Malek-Yonan
Rosie Malek-Yonan (born July 4, 1965) is an Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure and activist. Malek-Yonan became a noted pianist at an early age. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge, she settled in the United ...
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Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick (; born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and ...
Gallery
File:Assyrian Christians from Gug Tappeh, Urmia.jpg, Assyrian Christian Family from Gug Tappeh.
File:Assyrian church in Gug Tappeh, Urmia.jpg, Assyrian church in Gug Tappeh.
File:Assyrian Christian Festival in Gug Tappeh.jpg, Assyrian Christian Festival in Gug Tappeh.
File:St. Zayya Church in Gug Tappeh.jpg, St. Zayya Church in Gug Tappeh.
See also
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Geoy Tepe
Geoy Tepe (also Gök Tepe) is an archaeological site in northwestern Iran, about 7 kilometers south of Urmia (Reżāʾīya), Gug Tappeh. It was found by an aerial survey of ancient sites in Persia done by Erich Schmidt in the 1930s.
The site ...
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Assyrians in Iran
Assyrians in Iran (; ), or Iranian Assyrians, are an ethnic and linguistic minority in present-day Iran. The Assyrians of Iran speak Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, a neo-Aramaic language descended from the eastern dialects of the old Aramaic language ...
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List of Assyrian settlements
The following is a list of historical and contemporary Assyrian settlements in the Middle East. This list includes settlements of Assyrians from Southeastern Turkey who left their indigenous tribal districts in Hakkari (or the historical Hak ...
Notes
References
Populated places in Urmia County
Assyrian communities in Iran
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