Haftevan

For other places with a similar name, see Haftvan.

Haftevan^[3] (Persian: هفتوان, Haftvān^[4] is a village in Zulachay Rural District of the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

Haftevan Persian: هفتوان
Village
St. George Church, a 13th century Armenian church
Haftevan
Coordinates: 38°10′02″N 44°45′25″E / 38.16722°N 44.75694°E / 38.16722; 44.75694^[1]
Country	Iran
Province	West Azerbaijan
County	Salmas
District	Central
Rural District	Zulachay
Population  (2016)^[2]
• Total	8,203
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)

At the 2006 National Census, its population was 6,313 in 1,216 households.^[5] The following census in 2011 counted 7,995 people in 1,796 households.^[6] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 8,203 people in 1,935 households; it was the largest village in its rural district.^[2]

In early 1915, the village was occupied by the Ottoman Army, who required local Christians to register for food rations. Instead, 700 family heads were executed in the village on the orders of Djevdet Bey. Russian Army commander K. Matikyan reported seeing "with my own eyes hundreds of mangled corpses in pits, stinking from infection, lying in the open. I saw headless corpses, chopped off by axes, hands, legs, piles of heads, corpses crushed under rocks from fallen walls". According to historian David Gaunt, "This was where the Ottoman soldiers learned to execute unarmed noncombatant Christians", leading to the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide.^[3]

In 1930, the village was populated by Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Kurds.^[7]

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References

1. OpenStreetMap contributors (8 March 2023). "Haftevan, Salmas County" (Map). OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
2. . AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 04. Archived from the original (Excel) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
3. Gaunt, David (2020). "When Perpetual Persecution Becomes Ottoman Genocide". Bustan: The Middle East Book Review. 11 (1): 1–19. doi:10.5325/bustan.11.1.0001. ISSN 1878-5301. JSTOR 10.5325/bustan.11.1.0001.
4. Haftvan can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3767370" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".)
5. . AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 04. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
6. . Syracuse University (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 04. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
7. J. S., Chalenko; Berberian, M. (1974). "The Salmas (Iran) earthquake of May 6th, 1930". Annals of Geophysics. 27 (1–2): 162–163. doi:10.4401/AG-4919. S2CID 127985780.