Khaneshan

Khaneshan is a village in Tala [Tappeh Rural District] of Nazlu District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 448 in 129 households. The following census in 2011 counted 349 people in 111 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 295 people in 89 households.

History

In 1862, Khaneshan with Sopurghan had a combined population of 172 Church of the East families and was served by two priests and the Church of Mār Giwārgīs. Khaneshan was made part of the new Church of the East diocese of Sopurghan in 1874. There were 40 Church of the East families at Khaneshan in 1877 with no priests or churches. The village had a mixed population of Christians and Muslims prior to the First World War, according to the list prepared by Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia. Amidst the Sayfo, the village's Christian population, then consisting of fifty Armenian and Assyrian households, was slaughtered by Turks with no survivors.