Salmas

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

Salmās or Salamas (Persian: سلماس), also Shahpur, Dīlman, and Dīlmagān, is a city and a district in West Azarbaijan Province of Iran. The city's population is comprised mostly of Azeris and some Kurds.In 2006 census, the city had a population of 79,560.

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'. [1]

[edit] External links

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

it has located in an earthquick area.

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Coordinates: 38°12′N, 44°46′E