Haftevan

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Haftevan
هفتوان
village
St. George Church, a 13th century Armenian church
St. George Church, a 13th century Armenian church
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountySalmas
BakhshCentral
Rural DistrictZulachay
Population
 (2006)
 • Total6,313
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Haftevan[1] (Persian: هفتوان, Haftvān[2]) is a village in Zulachay Rural District, in the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6,313, in 1,216 families.[3]

In early 1915, the village was occupied by Ottoman forces, who required local Christians to register for food rations. Instead, 700 family heads were executed in the village on the orders of Djevdet Bey. Russian army commander K. Matikyan reported seeing "with my own eyes hundreds of mangled corpses in pits, stinking from infection, lying in the open. I saw headless corpses, chopped off by axes, hands, legs, piles of heads, corpses crushed under rocks from fallen walls". According to historian David Gaunt, "This was where the Turkish soldiers learned to execute unarmed noncombatant Christians", leading to the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide.[1]

In 1930, the village was populated by Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Kurds.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Gaunt, David (2020). "When Perpetual Persecution Becomes Ottoman Genocide". Bustan: The Middle East Book Review. 11 (1): 1–19. doi:10.5325/bustan.11.1.0001. ISSN 1878-5301.
  2. ^ Haftvan can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3767370" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
  3. ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 2011-11-11.
  4. ^ J. S., Chalenko; Berberian, M. (1974). "The Salmas (Iran) earthquake of May 6th, 1930" (PDF). Annals of Geophysics: 162–163.

Coordinates: 38°10′03″N 44°45′23″E / 38.16750°N 44.75639°E / 38.16750; 44.75639

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