Refugees from the Kurdistan mountains at the Russian consulate, Urmia

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Refugees from the Kurdistan mountains at the Russian consulate, Urmia

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1915

A dense crowd of refugees from the Kurdistan mountains, men, women and children, fills the steps and yard of a brick building at the Russian consulate in Urmia. Published in Abraham Yohannan's The Death of a Nation (1916); they were likely Assyrians from Hakkari.

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Source

Wikimedia Commons (from Yohannan, The Death of a Nation, 1916)

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