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A wedding procession in Urmia

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 20th century

A large crowd in festive dress moving through a village street in a wedding procession at Urmia, with musicians and onlookers on the roofs. Taken before 1916.

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

Abraham Yohannan · Public domain (published 1916)

A wedding procession in Urmia

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