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Mountain refugees in the Russian consulate, Urmia

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1910s

A dense crowd of refugees from the Kurdistan mountains gathered at the Russian consulate in Urmia. Likely 1915, during the Ottoman and Kurdish attacks on the Assyrians.

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Yohannan, The Death of a Nation (1916), via Internet Archive

Abraham Yohannan · Public domain (published 1916)

Mountain refugees in the Russian consulate, Urmia

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