Urmia may be a town in and also the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, in 153,570 families.The city lies at Associate in Nursing altitude of one,330 m on top of water level on the Shahar Chay watercourse (City River). Urmia is that the tenth most inhabited town in Persia. The population is especially Azeri Turkish, with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities.
Urmia is settled on a fertile plain referred to as Urmia Plain, on western aspect of Lake Urmia; and jap aspect of Turkish border and marginal vary of mountains.Urmia is that the trade center for a fertile agricultural region wherever fruit (especially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco area unit big. A crucial city by the ninth cent., Urmia was confiscated by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied variety of times by the Ottoman Turks.
Urmia was the seat of the primary U.S. Christian mission in Persia (1835). Around AD 1900, Christians created up quite four-hundredth of the city’s population, however, most of the Christians fled in 1918.
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