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Country
  
Iran

County
  
Khoda Afarin

Rural District
  
Minjavan-e Gharbi

Population
  
131 (2006)

Province
  
East Azerbaijan

Bakhsh
  
Minjavan

Time zone
  
IRST (UTC+3:30)

Sheykh Hoseynlu

Sheykh Hoseynlu (Persian: شيخ‌حسينلو‎‎, also Romanized as Sheykh Ḩoseynlū; also known as Shaikh Husain, Sheykh Ḩasanlū, Sheykh Ḩoseyn, and Shikhuseyn) is a village in Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District, Minjavan District, Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 131, in 34 families.

The inhabitants are followers of Yarsan religion. A prominent spiritual leader of the religion, Ali Alipour (D. 1991) lived most of his life in Sheykh Hoseynloo. He was, perhaps, the only Iranian who spent time in a Germany concentration camp as a prisoner of war. The family of Azerbaijan's famous Ashik, Changiz Mehdipour are originally from Sheykh Hoseynloo.

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Sheykh Hoseynlu Wikipedia