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[[File:Ruins_of_Gulpashan.jpg|thumb|300px|Ruins of Gulpashan after the first world war.]]
'''Golpashan''' was an [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] Christian town located on the western shore of [[Lake Urmia]]. The town was once one of the most prosperous towns in Urmia plains but was destroyed and abandoned in 1918. The site is now occupied by the village of [[Gol Pashin]].

==History==
It is not known exactly when [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] first settled in Golpashan but they did found the village.  They have continuously inhabited the land since pre-recorded history.

This village played a dramatic part in the [[Assyrian Genocide]] during and after [[World War I]]. It was attacked in February 1915 by bands of [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] and [[Kurds]].<ref name="gaunt116">{{Harvnb|Gaunt|Beṯ-Şawoce|2006|p=116}}</ref> Another attack in 1918 destroyed the settlement completely.

== Churches ==
Golpashan has at least three main churches:
* Mar Sehyon (St. Zion) [[Assyrian Church of the East]]
* Mar Gewargis Assyrian [[Chaldean Catholic Church]]
* St. Mary [[Assyrian Evangelical Church]]

== People from Golpashan ==
* [[Eden Naby]] Assyrian historian.<ref>[http://www.edennaby.com/]</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{citation|last1=Gaunt|first1=David|last2= Beṯ-Şawoce|first2=Jan|title=[http://books.google.com/books?id=4mug9LrpLKcC Massacres, resistance, protectors: Muslim-Christian relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I]|year=2006|publisher=Gorgias Press LLC|isbn=978-1-59333-301-0}}.

==See also==
*[[List of Assyrian villages]]

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[[Category:Former populated places in West Azerbaijan Province]]
[[Category:Assyrian settlements]]