Kelashin () is a mountain village in

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, near the Kelashin Pass (2,981m) to

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, some 80 km south-west of

Lake Urmia Lake Urmia is an endorheic salt lake in Iran. The lake is located between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan in Iran, and west of the southern portion of the Caspian Sea. At its greatest extent, it was the largest lake in th ...

. The

Kelashin Stele The Kelashin Stele () (also Kelishin or Keli-Shin; from Kurdish Language: Blue Stone) found in Kelashin, Iraq, bears an important Urartian- Assyrian bilingual text dating to , first described by Friedrich Eduard Schulz in 1827. Part of Schulz ...

found there bears an important

Urartian Urartian or Vannic is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language which was spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu (''Biaini'' or ''Biainili'' in Urartian), which was centered on the region around Lake Van and had its capital, Tushp ...

- Assyrian bilingual text dating to c. 800 BC.

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{{Reflist Ancient Assyrian cities Urartian cities Populated places in Erbil Governorate Kurdish settlements in Iraq