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The Chaldeans were for a time able to keep their identity despite the dominant native Assyro-Babylonian (Sumero-Akkadian-derived) culture although, as was the case for the earlier Amorites, Kassites and Suteans before them, by the time Babylon fell in 539 BC, perhaps before, the Chaldeans ceased to exist as a specific ethnic group.
The Assyrian ethnicity of Chaldean Catholics is also attested by Assyriology. In 1881, archeologist and author Hormuzd Rassam stated: “The inhabitants of Assyria consist now of mixed races, Arabs, Turkomans, Koords, Yezeedees, Jews, and Christians called Chaldeans and Syrians.
Assyrian, named after their ethnicity as the descendants of the ancient Assyrian people, [219] is advocated by followers from within all Middle Eastern based East and West Syriac Rite Churches. (see Syriac Christianity) [209] [220] Chaldean is a term that was used for centuries by western writers and scholars as designation for the Aramaic ...
Chaldean is thus a religious term, not an ethnic term. The majority of Chaldean Catholics come from Iraq's Nineveh Plains region, which is located in Upper Mesopotamia (northern Iraq). The Chaldeans of antiquity lived in southeast Mesopotamia from the 9th century BC and disappeared from history in the 6th century BC.
Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church; Chaldean Rite, the East Syriac Rite of the Chaldean Catholics; Chaldean Oracles, texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from 3rd to 6th centuries AD; referred to by some of the Christian Church Fathers
The terms "Syriac", "Chaldean" and "Chaldo-Assyrian" can be used to describe ethnic Assyrians by their religious affiliation, and indeed the terms "Syriac" and "Syrian" are much later derivatives of the original "Assyrian", and historically, geographically and ethnically originally meant Assyrian (see Name of Syria).
I myself, my sect is Chaldean, but ethnically, I am Assyrian.” [6] In an interview with the Assyrian Star in the September–October 1974 issue, he was quoted as saying: “ Before I became a priest I was an Assyrian, before I became a bishop I was an Assyrian, I am an Assyrian today, tomorrow, forever, and I am proud of it . ” [ 7 ]
The following is a list of notable ethnic Assyrians. ... Wilson Bet-Mansour – physician, Assyrian and Chaldean Member of Parliament of Iran 1968-1976, ...