Kelashin

Coordinates: 36°54′N 44°53′E / 36.900°N 44.883°E / 36.900; 44.883 Kelashin (also spelled: Kelishin, Kel-a-Shin, Kel-a Shin, meaning "blue holy stone" in Kurdish) is a mountain village in northern Iraq, near the Kelashin Pass (2,981m) to Iran, some 80 km south-west of Lake Urmia.

The Kelashin Stele found there bears an important Urartian-Assyrian bilingual text dating to c. 800 BC.

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