Английская Википедия:Egriqash
Шаблон:Infobox settlement Egriqash (Шаблон:Lang-fa, Шаблон:Lang-ku, also Romanized as Egrīqāsh; also known as Garīfāsh)[1] is a village in Mokriyan-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Mahabad County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,911, in 578 families.[2]
Name
Historically, the name of this village was Indirqash, of unknown origin, which was transformed by folk etymology into Azeri Turkish Ägri-qash ("crooked eyebrow") or Hündür-qash ("high eyebrow").[3]Шаблон:RpШаблон:Rp
History
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Shia Azerbaijani recruits in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps entered Egriqash and massacred the local Kurdish population.[4]
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