Balowlan
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| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = West Azerbaijan
| subdivision_type2 = County
| subdivision_name2 = Urmia
| subdivision_type3 = Bakhsh
| subdivision_name3 = Silvaneh
| subdivision_type4 = Rural District
| subdivision_name4 = Targavar
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| population_total = 309
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = IRST
| utc_offset = +3:30
| timezone_DST = IRDT
| utc_offset_DST = +4:30
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Balowlan ({{langx|fa|بالولان}}, also Romanized as Bālowlān;{{GEOnet3|-3807360|Balowlan}} {{langx|syr|Bālūlan}}){{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=307}}{{efn|Alternatively transliterated as Baloulan.{{sfnp|Gaunt|2006|p=417}}}} is a village in Targavar Rural District, Silvaneh District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. {{As of|2006}}, its population is 309, with 57 families.{{IranCensus2006|04}}
History
In 1877, Bālūlan (today called Balowlan) was inhabited by 30 Church of the East families and had one church.{{sfnp|Wilmshurst|2000|p=307}} The Christians of Bālūlan helped Assyrian and Armenian refugees who had fled the Hamidian massacres.{{sfnp|Hellot-Bellier|2017|pp=84–85}} It was reported in 1910 that the village had been seized by Kurds and the village's Christian population had taken refuge at Urmia.{{sfnp|Hellot-Bellier|2017|p=92}} In 1914, there were 200 Assyrian households at Bālūlan.{{sfnp|Gaunt|2006|p=417}} On 1 October 1914, Turco-Kurdish troops set fire to the village amidst the Sayfo and the inhabitants fled to Urmia.{{sfnmp|Gaunt|2006|1p=98|Yacoub|2016|2p=41}}
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book | last1 =Gaunt| first1 =David |date=2006|title=Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I|publisher=Gorgias Press|url=https://archive.org/details/massacres-resistance-protectors-muslim-christian-relations-in-eastern-anatolia-d|access-date=21 May 2023}}
- {{cite book | last1 =Hellot-Bellier| first1 =Florence |date=2017|chapter=The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century|title=Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire|editor1=David Gaunt|editor2=Naures Atto|editor3=Soner O. Barthoma|pages=70–99|url=http://www.aina.org/books/let-them-not-return.pdf|access-date=6 November 2024}}
- {{cite book | last1 =Wilmshurst| first1 =David|date=2000|title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913|publisher=Peeters Publishers|url=http://www.aina.org/books/ecclesiastical-organisation-of-the-church-of-the-east.pdf|access-date=30 October 2024}}
- {{cite book | last1 =Yacoub| first1 =Joseph |date=2016|title=Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History|publisher=Oxford University Press|translator=James Ferguson|url=https://archive.org/details/year-of-the-sword-the-assyrian-christian-genocide-a-history-by-joseph-yacoub-z-lib.org|access-date=21 November 2024}}
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Category:Assyrian communities in Iran
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