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Pronunciation: [ˈɜːmiə] (IPA)

Urmia, also known as Urmiah, is the name of a city located in the north-western part of Iran. It is sometimes referred to as the 'city of water', as it is situated near the Lake Urmia - a large saline lake. There are a few synonyms for the word 'Urmia' that can be used interchangeably. Some of the synonyms include Urmiah, Rezaiyeh, and Orumiyeh. Urmiah is the Arabic and English transliteration of the Persian language name, while Orumiyeh is the older Ottoman Turkish name given by the Turkish Empire. Rezaiyeh was a name derived from a family surname that held political power during Qajar dynasty in its vicinity.
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Both kings marched more than once up to the neighbourhood of the URMIA Lake, and Shalmaneser struck at the heart of Urartu itself three or four times; but with inconclusive success.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
Some part of them, under the name Parsua, seems to have settled down as far north as the western shores of Lake URMIA, on the edge of the Ararat kingdom; another part as far south as the borders of Elam.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
The shores of neither the URMIA nor the Van Lake were ever regularly occupied by Assyria, and, though Sargon certainly brought into his sphere of influence the kingdom of Urartu, which surrounded the latter lake and controlled the tribes as far as the western shore of the former, it is not proved that his armies ever went round the east and north of the URMIA Lake, and it is fairly clear that they left the northwestern region of mountains between Bitlis and the middle Euphrates to its own tribesmen.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth

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