What is "naqadeh"

Naqadeh (, , also known as Naqadeh, Naghadeh, Naghdeh, and Nagadeh; formerly known as '''Sulduz, Sool Dooz) ''', also Romanized as Sulduz, Solduz and Suldoz) is a city in and the capital of Naqadeh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 1996 census, its population was 110,257, in 20,781 families.

The city is located in the Gadar River valley, south of Lake Urmia at an elevation of above sea-level. The region's economy is based on agriculture, particularly the production of fruit, grain, and timber.

The town is inhabited mainly by Iranian Azerbaijani, as well as large minorities of Kurds and Qarapapaqs, the latter whom were resettled from the Caucasus into the newly established borders of Persia/ Iran after the loss of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, and Armenia to neighboring Russia following the first and second Russo-Persian Wars of the (19th century). Until the genocides of World War One, the town was home to a large number of Assyrians who were massacered by Muslim Turks during the Assyrian Genocide. The main religion of the area is Shia Islam, as with most of Iran.