Khosrowabad (, also
Romanize
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d as Khosrowābād; also known as Khosrava and Khoskawa; in ) is a village in
Zulachay Rural District
Zulachay Rural District () is in the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Malham.
Demographics Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population wa ...
, in the
Central District of
Salmas County
Salmas County () is in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Salmas.
Demographics Ethnicity
The county is populated largely by Kurds and a smaller minority of Azerbaijanis. Also a few hundred Assyrians live in the dis ...
,
West Azerbaijan Province
West Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia.
It is in the northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey ( Ağrı, Hakkâri, Iğdır and Van Provinces), Iraq ( Erbil and Sula ...
,
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 ...
. At the 2006 census, its population was 158, in 44 families. As of 2017, about 60 of the village's residents were
Assyrian.
See also
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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 ...
References
Populated places in Salmas County
Assyrian communities in Iran
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