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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia - Assyrian People
This article concerns the Assyrian people. For their ancient empire, see Assyria.
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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Assyrian People - Assyrians In Iraq
In 1933, the Iraqi government held the Patriarch of the Church of the East, the Mar Shamun, under house arrest. When he left Iraq to appe...
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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Assyrian People - Ottoman Assyrians
The Ottoman Empire, before it began to decay, had an elaborate system of administering the non-Muslim "People of the Book." That is, they...
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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Assyrian People - Neo-aramaic Koine
Beside local Aramaic vernacular forms, there is a literary language, based primarily on the dialect used in the Urmia district of northwe...
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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Assyrian People - Neo-assyrian Revival
Many Assyrians currently have an apocalyptic belief in the future of their nation, based on the following passage from the Bible:
At tha...
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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Assyrian People - Assyrians And Islam
Assyrians are not Arabs yet may speak Arabic and/or other languages of their adopted nations as well as their own. They are of Semitic or...
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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Assyrian People - Assyrian Diaspora
At the turn of the century the Christian population in Ottoman regions had numbered about 5,000,000. When the massacres finally ended in ...
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Assyrian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Assyrian People - Language
The modern Assyrian language belongs to the Eastern Aramaic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. It is a Semitic language similar to Hebrew...
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