Targavar Rural District
Targavar Rural District
دهستان ترگور | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| District | Silvaneh |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 7,893 |
Targavar Rural District (Persian: دهستان ترگور) 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.
Its inhabitants are mainly Kurds, and around a third of it is Assyrian. This sub-district along with two others, in modern-day Iran, lie in the eastern part of the Nochiya Region. The Assyrian tribe of Mar Behisho (or Mar b'Isho) is located here. According to Dr. Harry P. Packard of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, the districts of Tergawar, Mergawar, and Dasht were destroyed by Turks and Kurds during the Assyrian Genocide in events that gave rise to the Assyrian independence movement.[3]
References
- ^ Iranian National Committee for Standardization of Geographical Names website (in Persian)
- ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 2011-09-20.
- ^ Hannibal Travis, "Native Christians Massacred": The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians During World War I, 1.3 Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 327, 331 (2006), http://ssrn.com/abstract=950428
See also
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