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Jamalabad, Urmia
Village in West Azerbaijan, Iran From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jamalabad (Persian: جمال اباد, also Romanized as Jamālābād; also known as Jamlav and Sūlīng;[1] Syriac: Jāmālābād)[2][a] is a village in Anzal-e Shomali Rural District, Anzal District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 209, in 67 families.[4]
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History
In 1831, Yoḥannan, Church of the East bishop of Anzel, resided at Jamalabad instead of Gavlan, which had customarily been the residence of the bishop of Anzel.[2] There were 33 Church of the East families who were served by one priest and the Church of Mār Yōḥannān at Jamalabad in 1862.[5] By 1877, the village was inhabited by 15 Church of the East families and with no priests and one functioning church.[6] Jamalabad was attacked by Kurds in May and June 1908, at which time a small unit of Iranian troops was stationed there.[7] In 1914, the village was populated by 300 Assyrians households.[3] It had a mixed population of Christians and Muslims.[8]
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