Tufarqan

Tufarqan, also known as Dehkharaqan, lies on the eastern side of Lake Urmia, southwest of Tabriz. Water brought by underground channels sustained its gardens and orchards on the plain beneath the mountains. The fourteenth-century geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi described the town and recorded its revenues, noting that its inhabitants followed the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam. Its cultivated surroundings distinguished it from the salt waters of the nearby lake.