Urmia Plain (Persian: جلگه ارومیه; Azerbaijani: Urmu düzü) is a region in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It lies between Lake Urmia to the east, and the Turkish border to the west.[1] It contains the city of Urmia.
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The inhabitants of the Urmia Plain are Azerbaijani people and Kurds with a minority of Assyrian and Armenians.[2][3] The Assyrian of Urmia they speak Northeastern Neo-Aramaic dialects and are religiously diverse, adhering to the East Syriac churches (mostly to the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church),[4] and Protestantism.[5]
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- ^ Adam H. Becker (2 March 2015). Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism. University of Chicago Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-226-14531-0.
- ^ George David Malech (1910). History of the Syrian Nation and the Old Evangelical-apostolic Church of the East: From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time. Gorgias Press LLC. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-59333-408-6.
- ^ Minahan, James (2002). Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: A-C. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-313-32109-2.
- ^ Vander Werff, Lyle L. (1977). Christian mission to Muslims: the record: Anglican and Reformed approaches in India and the Near East, 1800–1938. The William Carey Library series on Islamic studies. William Carey Library. pp. 366. ISBN 978-0-87808-320-6.
