Jamalabad, Urmia
Village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran
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Jamalabad (Persian: جمال اباد, romanized: Jamālābād;[3] Syriac: Jāmālābād)[4][a] is a village in Anzal-e Shomali Rural District of Anzal District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.[6]
Jamalabad
Persian: جمال اباد | |
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Village | |
  Jamalabad Location within Iran | |
| Coordinates: 37°58′15″N 45°00′23″E[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| District | Anzal |
| Rural District | Anzal-e Shomali |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 158 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
History
The Church of St Anne at Jāmālābād is believed to date to between the 4th and 7th century AD.[7] 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.[4] There were 33 Church of the East families who were served by one priest and the Church of Mār Yōḥannān at Jamalabad in 1862, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[8] By 1877, the village was inhabited by 15 Church of the East families with 1 church but no priests, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[9] Jamalabad was attacked by Kurds in May and June 1908, at which time a small unit of Iranian troops was stationed there.[10] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War.[11] Prior to the First World War, there were 300 Assyrian houses at Jamalabad, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[12] It was located in the Anzel district.[8]
