Darbarud (; ) is a village in Torkaman Rural District of the Central District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
History In 1862, Darbarūd was populated by 20 Church of the East Christian families and did not have a church or a priest, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah. There were 50 Church of the East Christian families in 1877 with no priest or church, as per Edward Lewes Cutts. François Lesné, the Apostolic delegate of the Roman Catholic Church in Iran, recorded that the village was looted and burned by Kurds in 1908. A Muslim man from Darbarūd abducted a Christian woman from Sārdārūd in 1910, but she was ultimately released because she refused to convert to Islam. Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War. It was located in the Baranduz district.
Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 476 in 126 households. The following census in 2011 counted 497 people in 145 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 501 people in 169 households.
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