Urmia

• “The activists contend a network of dams are diverting water from Lake Urmia, the largest lake in Iran, causing it to dry up.”

  The Huffington Post: Human Rights Watch: Iran: Child Hanged in Public as Ahmadinejad Prepares for his General Assembly Speech

• “These are allegedly from the Iranian city of Urmia.”

  The Huffington Post: Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18)

• “A shoe was recently hurled at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in the city of Urmia, an Iranian Web site has reported.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Canon Fodder

• “-- I remember my father walking with me beside Lake Urmia once, pointing to the reflections on the water.”

  The Face Of The Divine

• “I found Enoch in a small village in Azerbaijan, on the banks of the Adji Chay river which runs east from Lake Urmia, through a fertile valley walled in by the Savalan and Sahand mountains.”

  The Face Of The Divine

• “Malak Ghorbany was sentenced to death June 28 by a court in the Iranian city of Urmia after being found guilty of committing "adultery.”

  Mother of 2 faces death by stoning in Iran

• “The region contains three great lakes: Van, Urmia, and Sevan.”

  8. Armenia, c. 1300-331 B.C.E

• “The Assyrians attacked Urartu itself in 735, annexed Urmia, and besieged Tushpa (unsuccessfully).”

  c. Urartu (Van)

• “Miandoab; Sa [= u] jbulagh; Sulduz; Urmia; Selmas; Khoi; Maku; Gerger; Merend;”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

• “Selmas and Urmia, is the most prosperous part of Azerb [= a] ïj [= a] n, yet even here the intelligent traveller laments the want of enterprise among the inhabitants.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

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