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| | Assyrian people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | After Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003, the Assyrian Democratic Movement was one of the smaller political parties that emerged in the social chaos of the occupation. | | | Its officials say that while members of the Assyrian Democratic Movement also took part in the liberation of the key oil cities of Kirkuk and Mosul in the north, the Assyrians were not invited to join the steering committee that was charged with defining Iraq's future. | | | It is likely that a significant proportion of the ethnically Arab citizens of modern-day Iraq and Syria are the descendants of ethnic Assyrians who, voluntarily or by force, assimilated into the Arabized Muslim population and thus lost their original ethnic identity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrians
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| | Iraqi Assyrians: Barometer of Pluralism - Middle East Quarterly - Summer 2003 |
| | Assyrians were thus forced to deny their identity as Assyrians and became, in the parlance of the regime, "Arab Christians." Speaking Assyrian in public became a crime, and Assyrian nationalism was harshly punished. | | | Assyrians have long had to distinguish themselves as Assyrians rather than as "Arab Christians," the term of choice used by Arab nationalists who deny the existence of a distinct Assyrian identity. | | | Given the fact that Assyrians from the diaspora have been willing to work with the Americans for a free Iraq, Washington has a particular responsibility to ensure that Assyrian voices and concerns for a postwar Iraq are heard. |
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http://www.meforum.org/article/558
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| | Holy war made in Germany |
| | Undoubtedly the Assyrians are conscious of being victims of this genocidal treatment--not for political reasons but due solely to their Christian beliefs. | | | By contrast, the Christian Assyrians were an ethno-religious group under the leadership of their Patriarch. | | | But is there any justification for blaming the British for the destruction of roughly two-thirds of the Christian Assyrians during WW I? When one is interviewing Assyrians of the older generation about responsibility for the massacres, the answer usually is: it was done by the Muslims. |
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http://aanf.org/America/assyrians/holy_war.htm
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| | Assyrian, Assyrians - ÇÔæÑííä¡ ÇÔæÑí |
| | The Assyrian Society of UK demonstration was to protest yet another injustice perpetrated against our people, this time in the Nineveh Plains, in which close to 150,000 of our people were unable to exercise their newly-found democratic voting right. | | | The killed and wounded were members of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, the main Assyrian political party in Iraq. | | | Persecuted for centuries, Iraq's Assyrian Christians once again wary of their future. |
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http://www.zyworld.com/Assyrian/Main.htm
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: The Quiet Tragedy of Iraq's Assyrians by Peter BetBasoo |
| | Peter BetBasoo is an Assyrian from Iraq and the co-founder and director of the Assyrian International News Agency (www.aina.org). | | | The political disenfranchisement and religious violence have prompted Assyrians, particularly those in the Diaspora, who have more freedom to speak, to call for the establishment of an Assyrian Administrative Area—a safe haven—lest history repeat itself and they again suffer large-scale massacres. | | | Failure to protect the Assyrians of Iraq will embolden other Middle Eastern regimes to persecute their Christian minorities. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16128
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| | Christians for Saddam? by Glen Chancy |
| | Today, in the Middle East, Assyrians are spread across Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran, where rights groups say they live as small, often discriminated-against minorities under governments largely unsympathetic to their religious and cultural aspirations. | | | In Iraq, most Assyrians live in the North, under Kurdish control in an enclave that was established after the 1991 Gulf War. | | | Given their history with Saddam, and the relative freedom they are experiencing in Northern Iraq, you would probably assume that the Assyrians would like nothing better than to see Saddam’s murderous regime consigned to the dustbin of history. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/chancy1.html
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| | Who are the Assyrians |
| | The Assyrian force was largely responsible for the annexation of Mosul (Nineveh) to Iraq rather than to Turkey, as an official of the League of Nations stated. | | | The Assyrians continued to protest about their mistreatment and continued to send letters to the League of Nations which requested a report from both of the governments of Britain and Iraq about the situation. | | | The ‘new order’ would not hear of it, this was a new world, the nations of the Axis Powers had to be forgiven and appeased, the Arabs had to be rewarded so that they could suppress their people and allow cheap oil to flow to the West. |
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http://www.nineveh.com/whoarewe.htm
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| | Who are the Assyrians |
| | In the same way the Assyrians are merely “Syriac-speaking Christians" from the perspective of the Arab Ba’athist government of Iraq, which also calls them Arab or Kurdish Christians. | | | Many issues disputing whether they are Assyrian, apart from the concept of self determination, can be answered by some statements and research made by eminent historians and scholars, purely from a historical and scholarly perspective. | | | He mentions that the Chaldeans are those that with the Assyrians (Assurayeh / Ossuroyeh) and Aramaeans form the Syriac (Suryayeh / Suryoyeh) people.”[21] The name Syrian was never used by Arabs to identify themselves with until the creation of the Syrian Arab Republic. |
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http://www.nestorian.org/who_are_the_assyrians.html
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| | ASSYRIANS People TourArmenia TACentral.com Complete Guides to Armenia |
| | A British mandate calling for the creation of an Assyrian state during World War I encouraged the Assyrian population to resist Arab and Persian domination, which, when the British pulled its support for an Assyrian State, ended in the death of almost 1,000,000 Assyrians (2/3 of the population) by Turkish, Arab, Persian, and Kurdish populations. | | | Like many cultures before them, Assyrians were subjected to systematic assimilation and deportation after the destruction of their powerful empire more than two millennia ago. | | | A fascinating accont of an Assyrian ritual celebraiton can be found at the AAASC web site. |
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http://www.tacentral.com/people.asp?story_no=5
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| | The fall of Nineveh: introduction |
| | For one year, two Assyrian officials named Sin-umliir and Sin-ar-ikun ruled the ancient city on the Euphrates; in the next year, the Babylonian general Nabû-apla-usur, who had been appointed by Sin-ar-ikun, defeated the Assyrians in a battle near Babylon. | | | After the death of king Aurbanipal in 631 BCE, the Assyrian empire became unquiet, and the Babylonians seized their independence. | | | Although he had liberated Babylonia, Nabopolassar continued the struggle against Assyria and his contemporaries knew that he would not rest until he had destroyed the capitals of Assyria: the religious center Aur and the administrative center Nineveh. |
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| | Note on the Modern Assyrians |
| | Assyrian colonization efforts were with the peoples they deported from one area to another -- then ultimately into Assyria to assimilate them as Assyrian subjects. | | | The Assyrians and Chaldeans are not precisely the last people speaking a descendant of Aramaic. | | | While this is celebrated by modern Assyrians as magnanimously conceding to foreigners the same rights and privileges as native Assyrians, it does have the awkward consequence that the naturalized Assyrians, under whose influence native Assyrians themselves began to speak Aramaic, |
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http://www.aramnaharaim.org/assyrians1.htm
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| | The Destruction of the Assyrians in 612 B.C. by Chaldeans and Medians.. |
| | The Assyrians had in that time also conquered the whole country of Israel and send the people into exile to Asshur (partly present day Iraq) because of their unfaithfulness to the Lord. | | | Their low contempt of the Old Testament, their far-reaching hatred of the people of Israel, that manifests itself in a anti-Semitism ideology, could be compared with the hatred and despise of the ancient Assyrians they had against the people of Israel and the Lord. | | | The Assyrians wanted to destroy Israel, Adolf Hitler wanted to destroy all the Jewish people and still some other countries nowadays wants to destroy the people and the land of Israel. |
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http://www.aramnaharaim.org/assyrians.htm
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| | Assyrians 4 Christ |
| | Transfer of Assyrians in Iraq Since 1918, OSS Report, 1944. | | | Description: A short Historical survey of the Assyrian minority in Iraq and its unsuccessful attempts. | | | One day in 1943, Labor Zionist essayist Hayim Greenberg was visited in New York by a stranger claiming to represent, of all things, the Assyrian nation. |
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http://assyrians4christ.tripod.com
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| | Assyria |
| | Although this was a comparatively mild deportation and perfectly in line with Assyrian practice, it marks the historical beginning of the Jewish diaspora. | | | After centuries of attempts at independence, the Assyrians finally had an independent state of their own since the Hittites did not annex Assyrian cities. | | | Simply put, the Assyrian state was forged in the crucible of war, invasion, and conquest. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/ASSYRIA.HTM
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| | ASSYRIA TO ASSYRIANS |
| | the assyrians include all the christians in irak and a small part of muslims and yezidies. | | | look man i dont have anything against kurds...but why are they claiming my land...or say not my land just let one city left to the assyrians...and thats true you havent denied any rights to us..but many kurds are in the thing to terrorise the assyrians so they will eave. | | | Ashur what are you talking about?Are there any assyrians left? |
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http://www.iraq4u.com/forum/fb.asp?m=730
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| | The Assyrians of Iraq |
| | Today, there are about two million Assyrians living in Iraq, 700,000 in Syria, 400,000 in the USA and about 500,000 in the rest of the world. | | | The rise of Assyria, a kingdom in northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) began around 1350 BC. | | | The Assyrians 1170-612 BC The Assyrians were Semitic people in the northern reaches of Mesopotamia. |
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http://www.al-bab.com/arab/background/assyrian.htm
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| | Assyrians - definition of Assyrians in Encyclopedia |
| | Assyrian, modern-day people in northern Iraq and neighboring areas. | | | This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Assyrians
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| | Assyrian civilization - All About Turkey |
| | The Assyrians rose to power and prosperity in Mesopotamia which today consists mainly of modern Iraq. | | | Tukulti-Ninurta II 890-884 - peace with Babylon, no tributes required | | | After the fall of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires respectively in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., the Assyrians were reduced to a small nation living at the mercy of their overlords in the vastly scattered lands in the Middle Eastern region. |
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http://www.allaboutturkey.com/asur.htm
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| | Assyria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Shalmaneser III (see under Shalmaneser I) attempted to continue this policy, but, although he exacted heavy tribute from Jehu of Israel and claimed many victories, he failed to establish hegemony over the Hebrews and their Aramaic-speaking allies. | | | Despite the magnificence of Assurbanipal’s court, Assyria began a rapid decline during his reign. | | | When Assurbanipal was fighting against the Chaldaeans and Elamites, an Egyptian revolt under Psamtik I was successful. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/as/Assyria.html
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| | Royal Assyrians |
| | For questions, or comments about this web site, send your e-mail to the Webmaster at: | | | Save Assyrian Artifacts, and The Aramaic Language of Jesus! | | | Throughout this website, to view the large image of any artwork, please click on its thumbnail. |
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http://www.royalassyrians.com
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| | Welcome to the Official Web Site of 'Atour' Assyrian Association of Armenia. |
| | The Assyrian Association “Atour” was founded in 1989. | | | The film is entitled “A Forgotten Page of One Nation”. | | | Today when the centuries-old dreams of Armenian nation, the formation of an independent sovereign State, has become true, the people have enthusiastically taken up the consolidation of the democratic principles, simultaneously creating conditions for the progress of all people inhabiting RA, the Assyrians among them. |
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http://www.atour.am
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| | Daily Bible Study - Ancient Empires - Assyria |
| | Assyrian Kings Who Had Contact With Israel and Judah | | | Which Assyrian king had 185,000 of his troops destroyed by an Angel for blaspheming God when they were besieging Jerusalem? | | | The Assyrian empire eventually declined, and by 600 B.C. it was overcome by the Babylonians. |
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http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/ancassy.htm
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| | Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia |
| | Each of its four sides is divided into five compartments of sculpture representing the tribute brought to the Assyrian King by vassal princes, Jehu of Israel being among the number. |
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