Khaneshan (; ) is a village in

Tala Tappeh Rural District Tala Tappeh Rural District () is in Nazlu District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the we ...

Nazlu District Nazlu District () is in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Nushin Nushin () is a city in, and the capital of, Nazlu District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran Iran, offici ...

Urmia County Urmia County () is in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Urmia. Demographics Ethnicity The county is mainly populated by Azerbaijanis, Persians and Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peopl ...

West Azerbaijan Province West Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia. It is in the northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey ( Ağrı, Hakkâri, Iğdır and Van Provinces), Iraq ( Erbil and Sula ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 448, in 129 families.

History

In 1862, Khaneshan with Sopurghan had a combined population of 172

Church of the East The Church of the East ( ) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church, the Chaldean Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches o ...

families and was served by two priests and the Church of Mār Giwārgīs. Khaneshan was made part of the new Church of the East diocese of Sopurghan in 1874. There were 40 Church of the East families at Khaneshan in 1877 with no priests or churches. The village had a mixed population of Christians and Muslims prior to the

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, according to the list prepared by Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at

Urmia Urmia (; ) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. In the Central District of Urmia County, it is capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is situated near the borders of Iran with Turkey and Iraq. ...

. Amidst the

Sayfo The Sayfo (, ), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian people, Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan province by Ottoman Army ...

, the village's Christian population, then consisting of fifty

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and Assyrian households, was slaughtered by Turks with no survivors.

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