Qurt Tappeh, West Azerbaijan
village in Iran
Qurt Tappeh (Persian: قورت تپه, romanized: Qūrt Tappeh; Syriac: Qūrtāpāh) is a village in Torkaman Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 316, in 85 families.
History
In 1862, Qūrtāpāh was inhabited by 12 Church of the East Christian families who had no church or priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah, at which time the village was served by the bishop Mār Gabriel of Ardishai. There were 20 Church of the East Christian families at Qūrtāpāh in 1877 with 1 church but no priest, as per Edward Lewes Cutts. The deacon Giwārgīs of Qūrtāpāh copied a manuscript at Sīre in 1895. The Church of Mār Giwārgīs at Qūrtāpāh is mentioned in the 1890s. Basil Nikitin recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War. Prior to the First World War, there were 50 Assyrian houses at Qūrtāpāh, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922. It was located in the Baranduz District.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5859683. Authority coordinates are 37.468, 45.212. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 1862, 1877 and 1895.
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