Tarmani
Village in West Azerbaijan, Iran
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Tarmani (Persian: تَرمنی, romanized: Tarmanī;[1] Syriac: Tarmāni)[2][a] is a village in Bakeshluchay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 143, in 40 families.[5]
History
Tarmāni was inhabited by 10 Church of the East Christian families with no church or priest in 1862, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah, at which time it was served by the priests ʿAbdīshōʿ and Yatgar of Gūlpāshān.[6] There were 18 Church of the East Christian families at Tarmāni with 1 church and no priest in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[2] Basil Nikitin recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War.[7] Prior to the First World War, there were 120 Assyrian houses at Tarmāni, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[3] It was located in the Baranduz District.[2]
On 9 January 2011, Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near the village, killing 78 people.[4]
