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Urmia

Not to be confused with Urmia County.
For other places with a similar name, see Urmia.

Urmia
ارومیه
City
Clockwise from top: Skyline of the city, Jameh Mosque of Urmia, St. Sarkis Church, St. Mary Church, Segonbad
Flag of Urmia
Flag
Official seal of Urmia
Seal
Nickname: 
Cradle of Water
Urmia is located in Iran
Urmia
Urmia
Coordinates: 37°32′38″N 45°03′53″E / 37.54389°N 45.06472°E / 37.54389; 45.06472[1]
CountryIran
Region3
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyUrmia
BakhshCentral
Government
 • MayorHossein Mahdizadeh
 • ParliamentVahid Jalalzadeh, Salman Zaker & Ruhollah Hazratpour
Elevation
1,332 m (4,370 ft)
Population
 (2016 census)
 • Urban
736,224[2]
 • Metro
1,000,000[citation needed]
 • Population Rank in Iran
10th
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
Area code044
Websiteurmia.city
Map

Urmia (Persian: ارومیه; pronounced [oɾumiˈje] )[a] is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. In the Central District of Urmia County, it is capital of the province, the county, and the district.[5]

The city lies at an altitude of 1,330 metres (4,360 ft) above sea level along the Shahar River on the Urmia Plain. Lake Urmia, one of the world's largest salt lakes, lies to the east of the city, and the border with Turkey lies to the west.

The city is the trading center for a fertile agricultural region where fruits (especially apples and grapes) and tobacco are grown. Even though the majority of the residents of Urmia are Muslims, the Christian history of Urmia is well preserved and is especially evident in the city's many churches and cathedrals.

An important town by the 9th century, the city has had a diverse population which has at times included Muslims (Shias and Sunnis), Christians (Catholics, Protestants, Nestorians, and Orthodox), Jews, Baháʼís and Sufis. Around 1900 Christians made up more than 40% of the city's population; however, in the next decades most of the Christians were either killed by the advancing Ottoman troops or in raids by Kurdish tribes[6][7] or fled shortly after the end of the war.[8][9][10]

Urmia, Takab and Piranshahr respectively have the highest number of registered provincial sites in the list of national sites.[11]

  1. ^ OpenStreetMap contributors (28 September 2024). "Urmia, Urmia County" (Map). OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2016 West Azerbaijan Province was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Orūmīyeh | Iran | Britannica".
  4. ^ Urmia can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3077456" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
  5. ^ Habibi, Hassan (c. 2023) [Approved 21 June 1369]. Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of West Azerbaijan province, centered in the city of Urmia. lamtakam.com (Report) (in Persian). Ministry of the Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Council. Notification 82808/T137. Archived from the original on 20 December 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023 – via Lam ta Kam.
  6. ^ Hellot-Bellier, Florence (2019). "The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century". Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Vol. 26 (1 ed.). Berghahn Books. pp. 71, 95, 96. doi:10.2307/j.ctvw049wf.8. ISBN 978-1-78533-498-6. JSTOR j.ctvw049wf.8.
  7. ^ Gaunt, David (2006). "Playing with Fire: Occupied Urmia". Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. pp. 81–120. doi:10.31826/9781463210816-009. ISBN 978-1-4632-1081-6.
  8. ^ "Urmia | Encyclopedia.com".
  9. ^ "Assyrians in the History of Urmia, Iran".
  10. ^ E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, M. Th Houtsma, p. 1035, 1987
  11. ^ "ثبت ۳۴۳۱ قلم اثر آذربایجان غربی در سامانه جامع میراث فرهنگی کشور". 17 May 2022.


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