Egriqash

Egriqash (Persian: اگريقاش, Kurdish: ئیندرقاش, also Romanized as Egrīqāsh; also known as Garīfāsh)^[1] is a village in Mokriyan-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Mahabad County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,911, in 578 families.^[2]

Egriqash اگريقاش
village
Egriqash
Coordinates: 36°50′23″N 45°45′28″E
Country	Iran
Province	West Azerbaijan
County	Mahabad
Bakhsh	Central
Rural District	Mokriyan-e Gharbi
Population  (2006)
• Total	2,911
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Name

Historically, the name of this village was Indirqash, of unknown origin, which was transformed by folk etymology into Azeri Turkish Ägri-qash ("crooked eyebrow") or Hündür-qash ("high eyebrow").^{[3]: 70 : 70}

History

After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Shia Azerbaijani recruits in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps entered Egriqash and massacred the local Kurdish population.^[4]