Qareh Jalu
Village in West Azerbaijan, Iran
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Qareh Jalu (Persian: قرهجلو, romanized: Qareh Jalū;[1] Syriac: Qārājālū)[2][a] is a village in Nazlu-e Shomali Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 108, in 29 families.[4]
History
The priest Ṣlībō, son of Gammō, from the Taimar district, copied a manuscript at Qārājālū in 1801.[5] Qārājālū with Ābājālūi was inhabited by 200 Church of the East Christian families in 1862 and was served by the Church of Mart Maryam and 3 priests, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[6] There were 80 Church of the East Christian families at Qārājālū with 1 priest and 1 church in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[7] The scribe-priest Giwārgīs of Qārājālū copied a manuscript in 1877.[5] The priest Laʿzar of Qārājālū copied a manuscript at Rome in 1886.[5] The Church of Mār Giwārgīs at Qārājālū was noted by Anglican missionaries in 1893.[7] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, noted that Qārājālū was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War.[2] Prior to the First World War, there were 300 Assyrian houses at Qārājālū, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[8] It was located in the Anzel district.[2] The villagers were massacred amidst the Sayfo.[9]
