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Letter to the court, 1923
Letter written by Hamdam al-Saltanah, her daughters (Malakah Zaman and Fakhr al-Zaman), and Zill al-Dawlah to the Court of Justice regarding their dispute with Banu-yi ‘Uzma over the Sa‘dabad gardens and requesting to execute the court decree to stop the illegal occupation of the gardens by Banu-yi ‘Uzma
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Regarding displacement of Targavir village people, 1907
A telegram from Imamquli in Urumiyah to Atabak A‘zam in Tehran regarding the pillage of Mavanah and Targavir villages by the Ottoman nomads, and the killing of eighteen men and sixty-six women and children. Around three thousand people, mostly Christians, from the neighboring villages, have fled to Urumiyah and are in need of food and clothing; the writer has been collecting aid from the elite and merchants of Urumiyah and is asking for the government's assistance, suggesting that any aid should be delivered via the Christian clergy who will distribute it among their people.