Qarah Aghaj (; ) is a village in, and the capital of, Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
History In 1862, Qārāghāj was inhabited by 43 Church of the East Christian families who were served by the Church of Beni Shmūni but had no priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah. There were 30 Church of the East Christian families at Qārāghāj with 1 priest and 1 church, as per Edward Lewes Cutts. Basil Nikitin recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War. Prior to the First World War, there were 70 Assyrian houses at Qārāghāj, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922. It was located in the Baranduz District.
Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,554 in 413 households. The following census in 2011 counted 1,246 people in 411 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,505 people in 492 households.
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