In ancient times, the west bank of Urmia Lake was called Gilzan, and in the 9th century BC an independent government ruled there, which later joined the Urartu or Manna empire; in the 8th century BC, the area was a vassal of the Asuzh government until it joined the Median Empire.
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Here are some photos from UIMA (the predecessor of URMIA) dated 1969. If you can help with names of those pictured, please contact the URMIA National Office.
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 ...
May 29, 2024 · Orūmīyeh, city, capital of West Āz̄arbāyjān province, northwestern Iran. It lies just west of Lake Urmia on a large fertile plain that yields ...
The Historical Compendium of URMIA. August 1986. Written by Charles D. Emerson, DRM, University of Kentucky and President of URMIA in 1980-1981.
Urmia is a city of firsts with the first modern hospital formation, the first medical training center, the first modern school, the first local television ...
Going back to the 1960s, we in the Big Ten had some very interesting and sometimes heated discussions about whether to expand or not. We heard about some group ...
The paleoenvironmental history of lake Urmia. Lake Urmia is a complex hydrological system governed not only by the climatic evolution in the eastern ...
It is a relatively shallow lake. At its deepest point, it is 16 m (52 ft) deep. In the early 1930s, it was called Lake Rezaiyeh after Reza Shah Pahlavi. In the ...
Apr 2, 2018 · Revered by ethnic Azeris as “the turquoise solitaire of Azerbaijan,” Lake Urmia was second only to the Caspian Sea as the largest saltwater ...