Salmas

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This Sassanid relief is located near Salmas, and is believed to depict either Ardashir I or Shapur I.
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This Sassanid relief is located near Salmas, and is believed to depict either Ardashir I or Shapur I.

Salmas or Salamas (Persian: سلماس) is a district in West Azarbaijan Province of Iran. The city's population is comprised mostly of Azeris and Kurds. The district's name comes from the Kurdish language[citation needed]. According to the Arab geographer Al-Muqaddasi, it was a Kurdish town populated by Hadhbani Kurds in the 10th century. [1]

It was here in March 1918 that the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI, was murdered by the Kurdish leader Simko, also known as 'Agha Ismail'. [2]


[edit] External links

  • Salmas, By C.E. Bosworth, Encyclopaedia of Islam.

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