Dari Lu () is a village in

Minjavan-e Sharqi Rural District Minjavan-e Sharqi Rural District () is in Minjavan District of Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Janan Lu. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district ...

Minjavan District Minjavan District () is in Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Asheqlu. History The only noteworthy allusion to the district in official records relates to an appeal by the inhabitants of th ...

Khoda Afarin County Khoda Afarin County () is in East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Khomarlu. History Before the Islamic Revolution, the city of Khomarlu was merely a village that was distinguished from other ...

East Azerbaijan East Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Tabriz. The province is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ardabil province, West Azerbaijan province ...

province,

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At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 429 in 84 households, when it was in the former

Khoda Afarin District Khoda Afarin District () is a former administrative division of Kaleybar County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital was the city of Khomarlu. History In 2010, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Khod ...

Kaleybar County Kaleybar County () is in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Kaleybar. History In 2010, Khoda Afarin District was separated from the county in the establishment of Khoda Afarin County. Demographics Population At ...

. The following census in 2011 counted 399 people in 102 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of

. The rural district was transferred to the new

. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 407 people in 140 households. In the wake of

White Revolution The White Revolution () or the Shah and People Revolution () was a far-reaching series of reforms to aggressively modernize the Pahlavi Iran, Imperial State of Iran launched on 26 January 1963 by the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and ended with ...

(early 1960s) a clan of Mohammad Khanlu tribe, comprising 40 households, used Derilou as their winter quarters.P. Oberling, “The Tribes of Qarāca Dāġ,” Oriens 17, 1964, p. 69 At present, most inhabitants are farmers. Still, during hot days of late spring and summer they move to tents in Chaparli summer camp to provide relatively large sheep herds of the

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

with better grazing opportunity. Before the 1940s the village enjoyed relative fame as the seat of Hossein Khan Leysi, who was a feudal from the ruling family of the Mohammad Khanlu tribe. After the Khan's second marriage to a commoner girl from upland region, he moved to Abbasabad, and Derilou lost its former importance. Still the Khan's sons married and the family was expanded. At present half of the village's inhabitants are descendants of Hossein Khan.

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{{Khoda Afarin County, state=collapsed Populated places in Khoda Afarin County

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