Урмия ( Band Village), Западный Азербайджан Иран

Все об Иране Urmia (Band Village), West Azerbaijan Iran Urmia, formerly Rezaiyeh, capital of West Azerbaijan prov. , NW Iran, near Lake Urmia. It is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit and tobacco are grown. A causeway and bridge across the lake connects Urmia with Tabriz. An important town by the 9th cent. , Urmia was seized by the Oghuz Turks (11th sacked by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks. Urmia was the seat of the first U. S. Christ