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Ploughing in the Assyrian village of Ardisch near Urmia, 1909

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1909

Teams of water buffalo and oxen pulling ploughs across a field below a stand of poplars in the Assyrian village of "Ardisch" (likely Ardishai) near Urmia. From K. Frangian's article on the Assyrians of Persia in Globus, 1909.

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Internet Archive (Globus: illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde, vol. 96, 1909; K. Frangian, "Die persischen Syrer")

K. Frangian (Salmas), author; Globus · Globus, 1909; public domain.

Ploughing in the Assyrian village of Ardisch near Urmia, 1909

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