Zonbalan, West Azerbaijan
Village in West Azerbaijan, Iran
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Zonbalan (Persian: زنبلان, romanized: Zonbalān;[1] Syriac: Zūmalān)[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 127, in 37 families.[4]
Zonbalan
زنبلان | |
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Village | |
Old Assyrian Christian house in Zonbalan | |
  Zonbalan | |
| Coordinates: 37°41′59″N 45°02′04″E | |
| Country |  Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| Bakhsh | Nazlu |
| Rural District | Nazlu-e Shomali |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 127 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4:30 (IRDT) |
History
Zūmalān was inhabited by 35 Church of the East Christian families and was served by the Church of Mart Maryam and 1 priest in 1862, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[5] There were 44 Church of the East Christian families with 1 church and 3 priests at Zūmalān in 1877, as per Edward Lewes Cutts.[6] Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War.[7] It was located in the Anzel district.[5]
