URMIA

ûrˈmēə, formerly Rezaiyeh, city (1991 pop. 357,399), capital of West Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran, near Lake Urmia. It is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit and tobacco are grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Oghuz Turks (11th cent.), sacked by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks. Urmia was the seat of the first U.S. Christian mission in Iran (1835). Around 1900 Christians made up more than 40% of the city's population; however, most of the Christians fled in 1918.

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books on: Urmia  - 145 results

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The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History
Book by Camron Michael Amin, Benjamin C. Fortna, Elizabeth Frierson; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Middle East--History--1517-
...American missionaries who had arrived in Urmia in 1834, lived in the large and prosperous village of Gugtapa, just south of Urmia. Like many others native to the area of Iran located between Lake Urmia and the Zagros mountain chain that divided...
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The Construction of the Assyrian Empire: A Historical Study of the Inscriptions of Shalmaneser III (859-824 B.C.) Relating to His Campaigns in the West
Book by Shigeo Yamada; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Assyria--History--Sources, Cuneiform Inscriptions, Akkadian, Shalmanesar--Iii--King Of Assyria--Fl. 9th Cent. B.C
...continued to the Sea of Nairi , apparently Lake Urmia, before visiting Gilzanu and then Hubushkia...two itineraries, north-west of Lake Urmia, and suggest that Shalmaneser, coming...passed Mt. Eritia on the way to Lake Urmia, and that Sargon must have come from the...
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The Great Battles of Antiquity: A Strategic and Tactical Guide to Great Battles That Shaped the Development of War
Book by Richard A. Gabriel, Donald W. Boose Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Battles, Military History, Ancient, Strategy
...capital of the Urartu was west of Lake Urmia in a straight line to Tuspar modern Van...controlled by Urartu. The route west of Lake Urmia was through the southern security perimeter...and his army moved northward around Lake Urmia toward the land of Mittati of Zikirtu...
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Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora
Book by Touraj Atabaki, Sanjyot Mehendale; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Asia, Central--Ethnic Relations, Caucasus--Ethnic Relations, Nationalism--Asia, Central, Nationalism--Caucasus
...instances of Assyrians coming from or through Urmia to the United States, there are numerous...many parts of northern Iran, including Urmia, and the Christian population of the area...never lost touch with her until he died in Urmia and the tie with her Assyrian background...
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Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation
Book by James L. Barton; Macmillan, 1930
Subjects: Near East Relief (Organization)
...He died just a week after he had left Urmia. Mrs. Shedd buried him in a lonely mountain...She reported that during the journey from Urmia. to Hamadan, between 2,500 and 3...for British newspapers, after visiting Urmia and Salmas, reported that Dr. E. W...
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journal articles on: Urmia  - 10 results

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Stammbaum or Continuum? the Subgrouping of Modern Aramaic Dialects Reconsidered
Journal article by Ronald Kim; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 128, 2008
...dialect very close to the Christian speech of Urmia, the basis of the Modern Syriac literary...from the sg., like Turoyo kalb-e, C. Urmia koelb-i dogs; cf. J. Zakho kalw...Syriac based on the Christian dialect of Urmia, the Jewish dialects of Iranian Kurdistan...
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The Verbal System of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Arbel
Journal article by Geoffrey Khan; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 120, 2000
Subjects: Aramaic language--Etymology, Dialectology--Research, Jews--Languages, Kurdistan--Languages
...in southern Turkey and those around Lake Urmia in northwest Iran (Hopkins, 1993: 62...Sanjak, Ruwandiz), (3) northeast (Urmia and the surrounding region), (4) southeast...dialect (of southeastern Turkey) and Jewish Urmia, for instance, the preterite is formed...
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Die Neuaramaischen Dialekte der Khabur-Assyrer in Nordostsyrien: Einfuhrung, Phonologie Und Morphologie
Journal article by Ronald I. Kim; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 130, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Die neuaramaischen Dialekte der Khabur-Assyrer in Nordostsyrien: Einfuhrung, Phonologie und Morphologie (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Betanure (Province of Dihok) (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...cf. the semantic contrast of -an and -enij in Christian Urmia (Polotsky 1961: 19-20); for the 2pl. present endings...section3.10) recurs in other NENA dialects, e.g., C. Urmia le ptux vs. le petx-it, -at dont close! (Polotsky 1994...
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Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern
Journal article by David Testen; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 129, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...century standard that arose among northern Iraqi Jews, and a nineteenth-century Christian standard developed by missionaries in Urmia (Azerbayjan)--all in addition to the traditional liturgical role played by classical Syriac. Similarly, Bulut observes...
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Curriculum on the Margins
Journal article by Helen R. Abadiano, Jesse P. Turner, Lynda M. Valerie; New England Reading Association Journal, Vol. 47, 2011
Subjects: Books, Children & youth, Childrens literature, Core curriculum, Language arts, Learning, Literacy, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Reading comprehension, Science, Students, Teaching methods, Writing
...Iranian intermediate female students with an average age of 18, who were studying English at the Iran Language Institute in Urmia, Iran. In addition to establishing the role of summary writing in promoting reading comprehension of EFL students, Baleghizadeh...
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magazine articles on: Urmia  - 5 results

 
 
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Managing Risk on College Campus
Magazine article by J. Tim Query; Risk Management, Vol. 48, June 2001
Subjects: Colleges & universities, Polls & surveys, Risk management, Statistical data, United States
...sent to the membership of the University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA) and thirty of the largest schools that are not current members of URMIA. The following are the results of that study. Priority A good evaluation of the...
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Integrating Risk Management and Strategic Planning: Integrated Risk Management and Strategic Planning Leverages the Benefits of Both Processes and Makes Them Mutually Reinforcing
Magazine article by Francis K. Achampong; Planning for Higher Education, Vol. 38, January 2010
Subjects: Risk management--Methods, Strategic planning (Business)--Methods, Universities and colleges--Management, Universities and colleges--Planning, Universities and colleges--United States
...Education, are valuable resources on planning. Similarly, the University Risk Management and Insurance Association and its URMIA Journal serve as excellent resources on risk management. (4.) See Cassidy et al. (2001, p. 4), in which the authors...
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Iran's 5,000 Years of Recorded History
Magazine article by Richard H. Curtiss; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XIV, April 30, 1996
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, Archaeology, Government, History, International relations, Iran
...612 B.C., breaking the Assyrian hegemony. During the same period the Persians had established themselves south of Lake Urmia, on the northern border of the Elamites and in the area of modern Shiraz, a region to which they gave the name Parsa, encompassing...
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Sex and the Single Brine Shrimp
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 102, May 1993
Subjects: Animal reproduction, Shellfish
...in Spain, North Africa, Sardinia, and Cyprus. A. urmiana had been reported only from Lake Rezaiyeh (also known as Lake Urmia), Iran, but recent evidence suggests that this species occurs in central China and perhaps in other Asian locations. At...
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Association Web Pages
Magazine article by Paul Feldman; Risk Management, Vol. 45, May 1998
Subjects: American Industrial Hygiene Association, Associations, International Federation of Risk & Insurance Management Associations, Manycompanies, Nonprofit Risk Management Center, Public Entity Risk Institute, Risk management, United States, University Risk Management & Insurance Association, Web sites
...weather services-in short, anything that can remotely be tied to risk management. (www.indiana.edu/-riskmgmt/urmia.htm) The Institute for Risk Research is a Canadian organization that studies risk as it applies to areas including environment...


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weekendQUIZ
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 4, 2006
...On the Outside? WHAT...was the name of the robot dog in the television series Doctor Who? WHERE...in Asia is Lake Urmia? WHEN...did Guatemala declare independence of Spain? 3 WHO...shot Harry Whittington in February? WHAT...was the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Urmia  - 7 results

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Urmia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
URMIA ur me , formerly Rezaiyeh, city (1991 pop...West Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran, near Lake Urmia. It is the trade center for a fertile agricultural...grown. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Oghuz Turks (11th cent...
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Urmia, Lake
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
URMIA, LAKE ur me , formerly Lake Rezaiyeh, shallow salt lake, 1,815 sq mi (4,701 sq km), c.90 mi (140 km) long and 50...
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Azerbaijan , Region, Iran
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...chief cities include Tabriz (the capital of East Azerbaijan), Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan), Ardebil (the capital of...the W by Turkey and Iraq. Azerbaijan, which includes Lake Urmia, is mountainous, with deep valleys and fertile lowlands...
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Zagros
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rugged, forested, and snowcapped mountains of the northwest, with numerous volcanic cones and large basins (e.g., Lake Urmia), to the parallel ridge and valley system of the central portion, with lowland salt marshes, and the low, irregular southwest...
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Iran
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...934 ft/5,771 m at Mt. Damavand, Irans highest point) in the north, and the complex Zagros Mts. in the west. Lake Urmia, the countrys largest inland body of water, is in the Zagros of NW Iran. Narrow coastal plains are found along the shores...
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