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The Neo-Assyrian Empire was an Iron Age empire centered in Mesopotamia.The reign of Adad-nirari II (r. 911–891 BCE) was considered the start of the empire.He and his successors – up to the late seventh century BCE – expanded the empire to dominate most of the modern Middle East, from Egypt in the west to the Persian Gulf in the east. [1]
Assyrian National Broadcasting was founded in 2011 by Ninos Ternian, an Assyrian entrepreneur and self-proclaimed Assyrian nationalist.Ternian had founded the channel in order to serve the Assyrian community and diaspora by creating a bridge between these communities, while preserving Assyrian culture, language, and heritage without religious, political, or any affiliation otherwise. [1]
Ishtar TV (Syriac: ܐܬܝܪܝܬܐ ܕܥܫܬܪ) is an Assyrian broadcasting channel which has its headquarters in Ankawa, Iraq. It was established by Sarkis Aghajan and was led by George Mansour, who was Ishtar TV's first General Manager, in 2005. The network broadcasts mostly in Syriac, but Arabic and Kurdish are heard throughout the day as well.
The Assyrian Policy Institute (API) is a non-governmental and nonprofit organization based in the United States [1] that primarily advocates for the rights of ...
The Old Assyrian period was the second stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of the city of Assur from its rise as an independent city-state under Puzur-Ashur I c. 2025 BC [c] to the foundation of a larger Assyrian territorial state after the accession of Ashur-uballit I c. 1363 BC, [d] which marks the beginning of the succeeding Middle Assyrian period.
The first recorded Assyrian in America was Zia Attala. [7] He reportedly immigrated to Philadelphia in 1889 and found work in the hotel industry. [8] Most early Assyrian immigrants, however, were young men sent by Western missionaries for religious training; [9] among them was Yaroo Michael Neesan, an Assyrian from Urmia. [10]
Introduced as the official language of the Assyrian Empire by Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BCE), it became the language of commerce and trade, the vernacular language of Assyria in the late Iron Age and classical antiquity, [30] [31] [32] and the lingua franca of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE), Neo-Babylonian Empire (605–539 BCE ...
Assyrian is one of the few languages where most of its foreign words come from a different language family (in this case, Indo-European). [2] Unlike other Neo-Aramaic languages, Assyrian has an extensive number of latterly introduced Iranian loanwords. [3] Depending on the dialect, Arabic loanwords are also reasonably present. [4]