Haftevan

For other places with a similar name, see Haftvan.

Haftevan Persian: هفتوان
Village
St. George Church, a 13th century Armenian church
Haftevan
Coordinates: 38°10′03″N 44°45′19″E / 38.16750°N 44.75528°E / 38.16750; 44.75528[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)

Haftevan^[3] (Persian: هفتوان)^[a] is a village in Zulachay Rural District^[5] of the Central District in Salmas County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

Haftevan massacre

In early 1915, the village was occupied by the Ottoman Army, whose commander required local Christians to register for food rations. Instead, 700 Christians were executed in the village on the orders of Djevdet Bey. Kurdish tribesmen under the command of Simko Shikak also took part in this massacre. 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]

Demographics

Ethnicity

In 1930, the village was populated by Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Kurds.^[6]

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 6,313 in 1,216 households.^[7] The following census in 2011 counted 7,995 people in 1,796 households.^[8] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 8,203 people in 1,935 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.^[2]

See also

Iran portal

Notes

1. Armenian: Հաւթւան or Հաֆթվան^[4]

References

1. OpenStreetMap contributors (27 September 2024). "هفتوان [Haftevan], Haftvan, دهستان زولاچای, بخش مرکزی [Zulachay Rural District, Central District], Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2024.
2. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2016: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). 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. Mousavi, Mir-Hossein (22 April 1987) [تاریخ تصویب (Approval date) 1366/02/02 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. ایجاد و تشکیل تعداد 7 دهستان شامل روستاها، مزارع و مکانها واقع در شهرستان سلماس تابع استان آذربایجان غربی [‌Creation and formation of seven rural districts including villages, farms and places in Salmas County under West Azerbaijan province]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. هیات وزیران [Council of Ministers]. شناسه [ID] 9B86F5C0-8C16-4F6C-8154-9247C8CA80E8. شماره دوره [Course number] 66, شماره جلد [Volume number] 2. Archived from the original on 21 October 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
6. 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.
7. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2006: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
8. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2011: West Azerbaijan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.