Targavar Rural District
Targavar Rural District (Persian: دهستان ترگور, Syriac: ܬܪܓܘܪ, romanized: Targawar) is a rural district (dehestan) in Silvaneh District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.[1] At the 2006 census, its population was 7,893, in 1,344 families.[2] The rural district has 26 villages. The district was home to a significant Assyrian population before the Assyrian genocide, but is mostly populated by Herki Kurds today.[3][4][5]
Targavar Rural District دهستان ترگور | |
|---|---|
Rural district | |
| Country |  |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| District | Silvaneh |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 7,893 |
References
- Iranian National Committee for Standardization of Geographical Names website (in Persian)
- "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)". Islamic Republic of Iran. Archived from the original (Excel) on 2011-11-11.
- Travis, Hannibal (December 2006). "Native Christians Massacred: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I" (PDF). Florida International University College of Law: 333.
- Borhanedin A. Yassin (1995). Vision Or Reality?: The Kurds in the Policy of the Great Powers, 1941-1947. Lund University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780862383893.
- Kahn, Margaret (1980). Children of the jinn: in search of the Kurds and their country. Seaview Books. pp. 48. ISBN 9780872235649.
See also
- Assyrian Genocide
- List of Assyrian settlements
- Assyrian homeland
- Margawar
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