Shirabad, West Azerbaijan

Shirabad (Persian: شيراباد;[1] Syriac: Shīrābād)[2] is a village in Nazlu-e Shomali Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran.

At the 2006 census, its population was 143, in 40 families.

[3] In 1862, Shirabad was inhabited by 40 Church of the East families and were served by two priests and the Church of Mār Shallīṭā.

[5] The village was entirely Christian prior to the First World War, according to the list prepared by Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia.

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