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Armenian and Syrian (Assyrian) refugees at the Kurdish gate, Urmia, 1918

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Armenian and Syrian (Assyrian) refugees at the Kurdish gate, Urmia, 1918

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1918
World WarSayfoRefugees

Armenian and Syrian (Assyrian) refugees with carts and bundles in the tree-lined avenue leading out of the Kurdish gate of Urmia in 1918.

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Source

Shedd, The Measure of a Man (1922), via Internet Archive

Mary Lewis Shedd · Public domain (published 1922)

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