Lake Urmia - Islands

Islands

Lake Urmia has 102 islands. For a Persian transcription of a list of their names, see this link. The second largest island, Shahi Island, is the burial place of Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan and the sacker of Baghdad.

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