Climate : Cold
Area : ۵۵۴۸
Khoy County is a country in
West Azerbaijan Province in
Iran. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions later split off to form
Chaypareh County was 365,573, in 85,550 families; excluding those portions, the population was 323,348, in 75,464 families.
The capital of the county
...see more is Khoy.
Khoy is located in the mountains, so the weather is very cold in winter and cool in summer. Spring weather in this city is very pleasant. The city is located in the vicinity of mountains such as Chelekhaneh Mount and Avrin Mount (The highest mountain of West Azarbaijan Province).
Khoy was fortified at various times in its history, most recently by the Qajar dynasty in the Nineteenth Century. It is well known for the tomb of Shams Tabrizi, renowned Iranian poet and mystic.
After the death of Nadir Shah Afshar in 1747, Khoy broke away from central government of Iran like several other states, including Afghanistan and some of northern Caucasian Khanates, and become the Khanate of Khoy (1747–1813) which was loyal to central government only when it was powerful (like Karim Khan) and autonomous when the central role was weak .
The returning of Khoy to central government of Iran was during the beginning of Qajar period. Khoy was attacked by Russia in 1827. Until 1828 Khoy had a large number of Armenian inhabitants.
In the mid-1800s some of them immigrated to eastern Armenia in the Russian Empire. Nowadays there is a small Armenian population living there.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoy_County
