Gavlan, Urmia

For other places with the same name, see Gavlan.

Gavlan Persian: گولان
Village
Church of Mariyukhna-ye Gavlan
Gavlan
Coordinates: 37°57′25″N44°59′41″E / 37.95694°N 44.99472°E / 37.95694; 44.99472 [1]
Country	Iran
Province	West Azerbaijan
County	Urmia
District	Anzal
Rural District	Anzal-e Jonubi
Population  (2016) [2]
• Total	1,155
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)

Gavlan (Persian : گولان) ^[a] is a village in Anzal-e Jonubi Rural District ^[7] of Anzal District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

History

Gāwīlan (today called Gavlan) may be the diocese of Giennum mentioned in a letter of the patriarch Abdisho IV Maron in 1562. ^[8] The Church of Mar Yoḥannan at Gāwīlan has been tentatively identified with the Monastery of Mar Yoḥannan at which Shimun IX Dinkha was elected as patriarch in 1580 and wrote a profession of faith in 1585. ^[9] The village was historically the seat of the Church of the East bishop of Anzel, however, in 1831 the incumbent bishop Yoḥannan resided at the village of Jamalabad instead. ^[10] The American missionary Justin Perkins met Yoḥannan at Gāwīlan in October 1834. ^[11]

There were 55 Church of the East families at Gāwīlan with no priests in 1862. ^[12] By 1877, there were 44 Church of the East families with three priests and one functioning church. ^[13] The bishop Yoḥannan of Anzel fled to England in 1882 following an attack on Gāwīlan by Kurds. ^[10] The village was populated by 1000 adherents of the Church of the East and was served by two priests and one church as part of the diocese of Salmas in 1913. ^[14] In 1914, Gāwīlan was inhabited by 200 Assyrian households. ^[15] The village was entirely Christian. ^[6]

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,084 in 263 households. ^[16] The following census in 2011 counted 1,139 people in 292 households. ^[17] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,155 people in 302 households. ^[2]

See also

Iranportal

Notes

1. Also romanized as Gavlān ^[3] and Gawalan; ^[4] Syriac: Gāwīlan; ^[5] also known as Anzel ^[6]

References

1. OpenStreetMap contributors (3 November 2025). "Gevlen, دهستان انزل جنوبی, بخش انزل [Anzal-e Jonubi Rural District, Anzal District], Urumia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 3 November 2025.
2. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2016: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
3. Gavlan can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3807206" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
4. Hellot-Bellier (2017), pp. 86–87.
5. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 296.
6. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 328.
7. Mousavi, Mir-Hossein (22 April 1987) [تاریخ تصویب (Approval date) 1366/02/02 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. ایجاد و تشکیل 20 دهستان شامل روستاها، مزارع و مکانهای در شهرستان ارومیه تابع استان آذربایجان غربی [‌Creation and formation of 20 rural districts including villages, farms and places in Urmia County under West Azerbaijan province]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. هیات وزیران [Council of Ministers]. شناسه [ID] 7DD016E4-E840-4986-9FDD-044DD3A0B2EE. شماره دوره [Course number] 66. Archived from the original on 2 November 2025. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
8. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 312.
9. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 327.
10. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 319.
11. Becker (2015), p. 83.
12. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 329.
13. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 331.
14. Wilmshurst (2000), p. 326.
15. Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
16. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2006: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
17. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2011: West Azerbaijan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

Bibliography

• Becker, Adam H. (2015). Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism. University of Chicago Press.
• Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
• Hellot-Bellier, Florence (2017). "The Resistance of Urmia Assyrians to Violence at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century". In David Gaunt; Naures Atto; Soner O. Barthoma (eds.). Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire (PDF). pp. 70–99. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
• Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913 (PDF). Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 30 October 2024.