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  2. Assyrian people - Wikipedia

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    These attacks caused the death of over thousands of Assyrians and the forced "Ottomanisation" of the inhabitants of 245 villages. The Turkish troops looted the remains of the Assyrian settlements and these were later stolen and occupied by Kurds. Unarmed Assyrian women and children were raped, tortured and murdered. [123] [124]

  3. Assyrian culture - Wikipedia

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    Assyrians celebrate many different kinds of traditions within their communities, with the majority of Assyrian traditions being tied to Christianity.A number include feast days (Syriac: hareh) for different patron saints, the Rogation of the Ninevites (ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܝ̈ܐ, Baʿutha d-Ninwaye), Ascension Day (Kalo d-Sulaqa), and the most popular, the Kha b-Nisan (ܚܕ ܒܢܝܣܢ, 'First ...

  4. History of the Assyrians - Wikipedia

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    A giant lamassu from the royal palace of the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 722–705 BC) at Dur-Sharrukin The history of the Assyrians encompasses nearly five millennia, covering the history of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Assyria, including its territory, culture and people, as well as the later history of the Assyrian people after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC.

  5. Assyrian continuity - Wikipedia

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    Assyrian continuity is the study of continuity between the modern Assyrian people, a recognised Semitic indigenous ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority in Western Asia (particularly in Iraq, northeast Syria, southeast Turkey and northwest Iran) and the people of Ancient Mesopotamia in general and ancient Assyria in particular.

  6. Babylonia - Wikipedia

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    The satrapy of Babylonia was absorbed into Asōristān (Middle Persian for "the land of Assyria") in the Sasanian Empire, which began in 226 AD, and by this time East Syriac Rite Christianity, which emerged in Assyria and Upper Mesopotamia the first century, had become the dominant religion among the Assyrian people, who had never adopted the ...

  7. Ancient Mesopotamian religion - Wikipedia

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    While Mesopotamian religion had almost completely died out by approximately 400–500 AD after its indigenous adherents had largely become Assyrian Christians, it has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because many biblical stories that are today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandaeism were possibly based upon ...

  8. Assyria - Wikipedia

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    Assyria was at its strongest in the Neo-Assyrian period, when the Assyrian army was the strongest military power in the world [7] and the Assyrians ruled the largest empire then yet assembled in world history, [7] [8] [9] spanning from parts of modern-day Iran in the east to Egypt in the west.

  9. Assyrian Americans - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, several Assyrian men who had been educated in Iraq by American Jesuits traveled to the United States. They were to teach Arabic to U.S. officers at the Army Language School who were going to be stationed in the Middle East. The men started the San Diego-area Chaldean Catholic community.