Salmas or Salamas (Persian: سلمس) is a district in West Azarbaijan Province of Iran.
It was here in March 1918 that the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Benyamin Shimon was massacred by the Kurdish leader Simko.
Assyrian settlements | Assyrians
Selmas | Salmas
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