Urmia Plain

Urmia Plain (Persian: جلگه ارومیه; Azerbaijani: Urmu düzü) is a region in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It lies between Lake Urmia to the east, and the Turkish border to the west.^[1] It contains the city of Urmia.

Assyrian Christian family making butter in Urmia Plain (Mawana), Persia, date unknown

The inhabitants of the Urmia Plain are Azerbaijani people and Kurds with a minority of Assyrian and Armenians.^[2][3] The Assyrian of Urmia they speak Northeastern Neo-Aramaic dialects and are religiously diverse, adhering to the East Syriac churches (mostly to the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church),^[4] and Protestantism.^[5]

See also

• Nineveh Plains