Urmia (Band Village), West Azerbaijan - Iran

Urmia (Band Village), West Azerbaijan - Iran Urmia, formerly Rezaiyeh, capital of West Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran, near Lake Urmia. It is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit and tobacco are grown. A causeway and bridge across the lake connects Urmia with Tabriz. An important town by the 9th cent., Urmia was seized by the Oghuz Turks (11th cent.), sacked by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks. Urmia was the seat of the first U.S. Christian mission in Iran (1835). "Mia" is Aramaic Syriac meaning "water." Hence Urmia simply means "Watertown" The Earth is my mother...Infinite Space is my father, May he fill us with plenty. Peaceful, sweet-smelling, gracious Earth, Whatever I dig from thee, O earth, May that have quick growth again, May we not injure your vitals or your heart. Full of sweetness are the plants, And full of sweetness these my words And with things that are full of sweetness, I prosper in a thousand ways. From The Atharva Veda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Azerbaijan_Province http://poeticliterature.com/