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Refugee column near Lake Urmia, 1915

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1915

A long column of refugees on foot, with carts and horses, winds down a slope beside Lake Urmia in spring 1915. Photographed by Basil Nikitin, then Russian consul at Urmia; the refugees are likely Assyrian and Armenian Christians.

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Basil Nikitin · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain ({{PD-Iran}})

Refugee column near Lake Urmia, 1915

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