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Crowd of Urmia refugees at Baqubah camp, 1918-1919

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1918

A great crowd of Assyrian and Armenian refugees from Urmia stands on open ground in the Baqubah camp. The caption mentions the Nahrawan Canal, "rows and rows of tents", and that the people of Urmia fled the Turkish invasion.

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Presbyterian Historical Society, Pearl Digital Collections (photographs from the estate of Marie Gillespie, missionary to Iran, 1917-1940)

Marie Gillespie

Crowd of Urmia refugees at Baqubah camp, 1918-1919

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