Assyrians (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ, romanized: Sūrāyē / Sūrōyē) are a distinct ethnic group native to Mesopotamia with roots in ancient Assyria. They speak varieties...

divided into the Early Assyrian (c. 2600–2025 BC), Old Assyrian (c. 2025–1364 BC), Middle Assyrian (c. 1363–912 BC), Neo-Assyrian (911–609 BC), and post-imperial...

Early Assyrian Period Old Assyrian Period Middle Assyrian Empire Neo-Assyrian Empire Post-imperial Assyria Assyrian language (disambiguation) Assyrian Church...

symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of...

in its Assyrian and Babylonian varieties, was the native language of the Mesopotamian empires (Old Assyrian Empire, Babylonia, Middle Assyrian Empire)...

the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed, located in the Upper Mesopotamia of West Asia. The territory that forms the Assyrian homeland...

The Assyrian captivity, also called the Assyrian exile, is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which tens of thousands of Israelites...

Assyrian script may refer to: Assyrian cuneiform, a writing system used during the Babylonian and Assyrian empires Ashuri alphabet (sometimes called the...

Assyrian Church may refer to: Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Christian church founded by and composed of ethnic Assyrians entered into communion...

The Middle Assyrian Empire was the third stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of Assyria from the accession of Ashur-uballit I c. 1363 BC and...

The Assyrian continuity thesis is the idea that the modern Assyrians are to be culturally and historically identified with, and are the direct descendants...

The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church 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...

 'sword'), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass killing and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia...

denomination based in Baghdad and is composed largely of ethnic Assyrians. It separated from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964 to establish an independent...

the world had seen thus far. Ancient Assyrian history is typically divided into the Old, Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods, all marked by ages of ascendancy...

Assyrian language may refer to: Ancient Assyrian language, a dialect of the ancient East Semitic Akkadian language In modern Assyrian terminology, related...

The Assyrian calendar (Syriac: ܣܘܼܪܓܵܕ݂ܵܐ ܐܵܬ݂ܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ, romanized: sūrgāḏā ʾĀṯōrāyā) is a solar calendar used by modern Assyrian people. Historically and...

ethnically, I am Assyrian." Earlier, he said: "Before I became a priest I was an Assyrian, before I became a bishop I was an Assyrian, I am an Assyrian today, tomorrow...

The Assyrian diaspora (Syriac: ܓܠܘܬܐ, romanized: Galuta, lit. 'exile') refers to ethnic Assyrians living in communities outside their ancestral homeland...

Assyrians in Israel (Hebrew: האשורים בישראל; Arabic: آشُورِيُّون في إسرائيل) are Assyrians living in State of Israel, totaling approximately 1,000 individuals...

throughout the history of the Assyrian monarchy. The religion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire centered around the Assyrian king as the king of their lands...

[ˈsuːrɪθ]), also known as Assyrian, is any of several varieties of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) spoken by the modern Assyrian people. The various NENA...

Assyrian nationalism, sometimes known as Assyrianism, is a movement among the Assyrian people that advocates for their independence or autonomy in the...

Syria. Syrian-Assyrians are people of Assyrian descent living in Syria, and those in the Assyrian diaspora who are of Syrian-Assyrian heritage. They...

The Assyrian flag (Syriac: ܐܬܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܬܐ ʾāṯā ʾāṯōrāytā or ܐܬܐ ܕܐܬܘܪ ʾāṯā d-ʾāṯōr) is widely used to represent the Assyrian nation in the homeland and in...

succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire. The Babylonian Empire rapidly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi...

Assyrian Australians (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܐܘܼܣܛܪܵܠܝܼܵܐ, romanized: Sūryāyē d-Ūstrāliyā) are ethnic Assyrians or people of Assyrian descent possessing Australian...

Assyrians in Iran (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܐܝܼܪܵܢ; Persian: آشوریان ایران), or Iranian Assyrians, are an ethnic and linguistic minority in present-day Iran. The...

Assyrian law, also known as the Middle Assyrian Laws (MAL) or the Code of the Assyrians, was an ancient legal code developed between 1450 and 1250 BCE...

Assyrian Americans (Syriac: ܣܘܼܖ̈ܵܝܹܐ ܐܲܡܪ̈ܝܼܟܵܝܹܐ) are individuals of ethnic Assyrian ancestry born or residing within the United States. Assyrians are...

Assyrians in Palestine (Arabic: آشُورِيُّون في دولة فلسطين) or Assyrian Palestinians are Assyrians living in Palestine, whose number is several thousands...

Mesopotamia. They are defined as Assyrians residing in the country of Iraq, or members of the Assyrian diaspora who are of Iraqi-Assyrian heritage. They share a...

history of the Assyrian people after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC. For purposes of historiography, ancient Assyrian history is often...

Assyrian culture is not only distinct in that it is different from the neighboring ethnic groups of the Assyrian homeland, but that many of its unique...

logograms. Neo-Assyrian cuneiform syllabary (c. 650 BC) In the Iron Age (c. 10th–6th centuries BC) during the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Assyrian cuneiform was...

Anti-Assyrian sentiment, also known as anti-Assyrianism and Assyrophobia, refers to negative feelings, dislikes, fears, aversions, racism, derision, and/or...

Achaemenid Empire. The frequent interference in the Zagros Mountains by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, located in Upper Mesopotamia, led to the unification of the Median...

The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (c. 701 BC) was an aborted siege of Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah, carried out by Sennacherib, king of...

Assyrian period, Middle Assyrian Empire, and Neo-Assyrian Empire. Modern scholars typically also recognize an Early period preceding the Old Assyrian...

Assyrians. Ninos Aho – poet and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism Freydun Atturaya – physician, poet and founder of the first Assyrian political...

SS Assyrian may refer to: SS Assyrian (1897), a British cargo ship built in 1897 and wrecked in 1901. SS Assyrian (1914), a cargo ship built in Germany...

The Assyrian Mastiff, was a landrace of dog found in Assyria. This dog was often used as a livestock guardian against predators, as well as for lion and...

century, there has been a debate over the most appropriate ethnic name for Assyrians. Such debates are divided into distinct arguments that fall on the declaration...

(Sumerian: 𒀭𒊹, romanized: AN.ŠAR₂, Assyrian cuneiform: 𒀭𒊹 Aš-šur, 𒀭𒀀𒇳𒊬 ᵈa-šur₄) was the national god of the Assyrians in ancient times until their gradual...

The Assyrian independence movement is a political movement and ethno-nationalist desire of ethnic Assyrians to live in their indigenous Assyrian homeland...

The Assyrian volunteers were an ethnic Assyrian military force during World War I, led mainly by General Agha Petros Elia of Baz and several tribal leaders...

Assyrian Empire The Old Assyrian language Old Assyrian cuneiform, see Cuneiform script Middle Assyrian (disambiguation) Neo-Assyrian (Early Iron Age) This...

Assyrian sculpture is the sculpture of the ancient Assyrian states, especially the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 612 BC, which was centered around the...

of southern Mesopotamia. It is mentioned, with varying meaning, in Neo-Assyrian cuneiform, the Hebrew Bible, and in classical Greek texts. The Hebrew Bible...

Assyrians in Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Süryanileri, Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܕܛܘܪܩܝܐ) or Turkish Assyrians are an indigenous Semitic-speaking ethnic group and a...

The Early Assyrian period was the earliest stage of Assyrian history, preceding the Old Assyrian period and covering the history of the city of Assur and...

known as "Mtakasta/Mtakasto", is an Assyrian political party based in Syria. Founded in 1957, it is the oldest Assyrian political party in Syria, and was...

Western Assyrians, in the context of modern Assyrian terminology someone or something related to Western Assyrian dialects (in modern Assyrian terminology)...

context of Assyrian irredentism. It was exacerbated by the Assyrian genocide and Assyrian War of Independence of World War I. The emphasis of Assyrian antiquity...

war and the spillover. Leaders of Iraq's Assyrian community estimate that over two-thirds of the Iraqi Assyrian population may have fled the country or...

refer to themselves as Assyrian Orthodox Assyrian community in the Georgian Orthodox Church, dated back to the 6th century Assyrian community in the Russian...

texts that refers to a figure in the national mythology of Assyria. The Assyrian Belus is likely equivalent to Babylonian Belus, who was likely a form of...

The Assyrian conquest of Egypt covered a relatively short period of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 673 to 663 BCE. The conquest of Egypt not only placed...

Assyrians in Armenia (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܐܪܡܢܝܐ, Armenian: Ասորիները Հայաստանում, romanized: Asorinery Hayastanum), or Armenian Assyrians, are Assyrian people...

Judah. Around 720 BCE, Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The records of Assyrian king Sargon II indicate that he deported 27,290 Israelites...

Assyrians in Sweden (Swedish: Assyrier i Sverige), or Swedish Assyrians, are Assyrians or people of Assyrian descent living in Sweden. Between 2018 and...

The Assyrian was an Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse owned and trained by J. E. Savill that won the 1882 Melbourne Cup being ridden by Charles Hutchins...

Assyria in the north and Babylonia in the south. From 900 to 612 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire asserted control over much of the ancient Near East. Subsequently...

Middle Assyrian Empire, and the Empire of Mitanni. By the 12th century BC, much of the Hittite Empire had been annexed by the Middle Assyrian Empire,...

and Iran during the Assyrian genocide. Historically, the first Assyrians arrived in Georgia in the 6th century A.D. when 13 Assyrian monks (historically...

Assyrian Canadians (French: Canadiens Assyriens) are Canadians of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have Canadian citizenship. According to the 2011 census...

Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612–609 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid...

Assyrian music may refer to: Music of Mesopotamia, is a music in ancient Assyria Assyrian folk/pop music Syriac sacral music, sacral music in Syriac Christianity...

Assyrian weddings are marriage ceremonies that contain influences of Assyrian culture or other practices traditionally performed by the Assyrian people...

(Venus) Ninurta (Saturn) Nabu (Mercury) Nergal (Mars) The religion of the Assyrian Empire (sometimes called Ashurism) centered on Ashur, patron deity of the...

French Assyrians (Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܕܦܪܲܢܓܝܵܐ, French: Assyriens) are French citizens of Assyrian ancestry. There are around 30,000 most of whom are concentrated...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire arose in the 10th century BC. Ashurnasirpal II is credited for utilizing sound strategy in his wars of conquest. While aiming to...

lifestyle, or religion. The people of Aram were called "Arameans" in Assyrian texts and the Hebrew Bible, but the terms "Aramean" and "Aram" were never...

sources (notably Assyrian inscriptions). His reign was marked by his significant religious reforms and his revolt against the Assyrian Empire. He witnessed...

𒊓𒈨𒊑𒈾 Samerina) was the province of the Neo-Assyrian Empire established following the c. 722 BC Assyrian conquest of Samaria by Shalmaneser V, which resulted...

Assyrians in Lebanon (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܠܒܢܢ; Arabic: الآشوريين في لبنان; French: Libanais-Assyriens), or Assyrian Lebanese, are people of Assyrian descent...

Assyrians in the Netherlands (Dutch: Assyriërs in Nederland) are Dutch citizens of Assyrian. They mainly live in the east of the country, in the province...

Assyrians in Greece (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܝܘܢ) (Greek: Ασσύριοι στην Ελλάδα) include migrants of Assyrian descent living in Greece. The Assyrian community...

German Assyrians (German: Assyrer in Deutschland) are Germans of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have German citizenship. The Assyrians in Germany mainly...

The Assyrian Policy Institute (API) is a non-governmental and nonprofit organization based in the United States that primarily advocates for the rights...

The Assyrian Democratic Movement (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܘܥܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ, romanized: Zawʻá Demoqraṭáyá ʼÁṯuráyá, Arabic: الحركة الديمقراطية الآشورية...

referred to as the Assyrian eclipse or the Bur-Sagale eclipse, occurred on 15 June 763 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar, recorded in Assyrian eponym lists...

Eastern Assyrians, in the context of modern Assyrian terminology someone or something related to Eastern Assyrian dialects (in modern Assyrian terminology)...

against the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which had ruled Babylonia for more than a century, eventually led to the complete destruction of the Assyrian Empire and the...

(Akkadian: 𒁁𒇻𒌑, romanized: Be-lu-ú) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 14th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. However, he...

Assyrians in Azerbaijan (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܐܙܪܒܝܓܐܢ; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan aysorları), or Azerbaijani Assyrians, are Assyrian people or people of Assyrian...

The Assyrian rebellion (Turkish: Nasturi Ayaklanması, "Nestorian Uprising") was an uprising by the Assyrians in Hakkari which was administered by Assyrians...

Assyrian Apostolic Church may refer to: Assyrian Apostolic Church of the East, an Eastern Christian denomination of the East Syriac Rite Assyrian Jacobite...

d'Simele, Arabic: مذبحة سميل, romanized: maḏbaḥat Simīl), also known as the Assyrian affair, was a massacre committed by the Kingdom of Iraq under the leadership...

The Assyrian Pentecostal Church (Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܐܚܘܢܘ̈ܬܐ ܦܢܛܩܘܣܛܝ̈ܐ ܐܬܘܪ̈ܝܐ, romanized: ‘Ittā d-Akhonāwāthā Pēnṭēqosṭāyē Ātūrāyē; Persian: کلیسای پنطیکاستی...

Nations Assyrian National Petition, 1945. Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party case for Assyrian autonomy. Currently,[when?] two major Assyrian parties (Assyrian Democratic...

forces, Assyrian security forces, Babylon Brigade and the Shabak Militia. The plains have a heterogenous population of Aramaic-speaking Assyrian Christians...

are many different Assyrian political parties in Iraq. The main Assyrian party that came out from the 2005 elections was the Assyrian Democratic Movement...

Neo-Assyrian Empire succeeded the Middle Assyrian period (14th to 10th century BC). Some scholars, such as Richard Nelson Frye, regard the Neo-Assyrian Empire...

refer to: The Middle Assyrian Empire The Middle Assyrian language Middle Assyrian cuneiform, see Cuneiform script Old Assyrian (disambiguation) (Middle...

Assyrian National Broadcasting (Syriac: ܦܪܣܬܐ ܐܘܡܬܢܝܬܐ ܐܫܘܪܝܬܐ), also known as ANB Sat, is a private television broadcasting company for the Assyrian...

(also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church, or the Nestorian Church) is one of three...

Ashurbanipal (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀸𒋩𒆕𒀀, romanized: Aššur-bāni-apli, meaning "Ashur is the creator of the heir") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from...

The Iraq Levies (also known as the Assyrian Levies) was a predominantly Assyrian force, and the first Iraqi military force established by the British...

The Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire was the last war fought by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, between 626 and 609 BC. Succeeding his brother...

the ancient Assyrians. (see Assyria, Assyrian continuity and Assyrian people). Most Assyrian Evangelicals (as well as members of the Assyrian Pentecostal...

spanning Anatolia and the Levant collapsed, while states such as the Middle Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia and the New Kingdom of Egypt survived in weakened...

the final stage of ancient Assyrian history, covering the history of the Assyrian heartland from the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC to the final...

Assyrians in Jordan (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܝܘܪܕܢܢ; Arabic: الآشوريون في الأردن), or Jordanian Assyrians are Assyrian people or people of Assyrian descent living...

population increased greatly, prospering under Neo-Assyrian vassalage despite Hezekiah's revolt against the Assyrian king Sennacherib. Josiah took advantage of...

The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BC. The siege is documented in several sources including...

Loanwords in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic came about mostly due to the contact between Assyrian people and Arabs, Persians, Kurds and Turks in modern history,...

June 1915) was a military engagement between the Assyrian defenders led by Malik Ismail II, an Assyrian tribal leader, and Artushi Kurdish forces under...

Assyrian cuisine is the cuisine of the indigenous Assyrian people, Eastern Aramaic-speaking Syriac Christians of Iraq, northeastern Syria, northwestern...

The Assyrian conquest of Aram (c. 856 – 732 BCE) refers to the series of military campaigns and annexations by the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE) that...

history. Knowledge of the Medes comes only from foreign sources such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, Armenians and Greeks, as well as a few Iranian archaeological...

SS Assyrian was a cargo ship that was built in Hamburg for German owners in 1914, transferred to British owners in 1920 as war reparations and sunk by...

Christian community in the entire Middle East. The Eastern Aramaic speaking Assyrians of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and parts of...

Assyrians in Belgium are Belgian citizens of Assyrian descent. Belgium's Assyrian diaspora is concentrated in the Flemish cities of Mechelen and Antwerp...

Assyrians in Russia (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܪܘܣܝܐ; Russian: Ассирийцы в России, romanized: Assiriytsy v Rossii), or Russian Assyrians, are Assyrian people or...

British Assyrians are British people of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have British citizenship. They are the indigenous population of present-day...

native Babylonian (Akkadian), Amorite, Armenian, Kassite, Elamite, Aramean, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian, Greek and Parthian origin. A king's cultural and ethnic...

and administration of ancient kingdoms and empires—particularly the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, and Achaemenid Empire—and as a language...

(Akkadian: 𒀀𒁕𒈬, romanized: A-da-mu) was, according to the Assyrian King List (AKL), the second Assyrian monarch, who ruled during Assyria's early period. He...

Samsu-iluna, and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. After the Assyrians destroyed and then rebuilt it, Babylon became...

written records, and most information about them is largely derived from Neo-Assyrian records of the 8th to 7th centuries BC and from Graeco-Roman authors from...

(Akkadian: 𒀀𒈪𒉡, romanized: A-mi-nu) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 26th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. Aminu is listed...

affiliated with the local Assyrian community of the satrapy of Asuristan (Assyria), many who were followers of the Assyrian Church, known as the Church...

battle that marked the climax of the Conquest of the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC. After the Assyrian defeat at the Fall of Assur, an allied army which involved...

The Thirteen Assyrian Fathers (Georgian: ათცამმეტი ასურელი მამანი, romanized: attsammet'i asureli mamani) are, according to Georgian church tradition,...

The East Syriac Rite, or East Syrian Rite (also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental...

The Assyrian Muslim Cemetery is a Muslim cemetery in Mountrail County, North Dakota, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018...

The Last Assyrians (French: Les Derniers Assyriens) is a 2004 French documentary film by Robert Alaux. This film begins in the Chaldo-Assyrian community...

by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. While the Kingdom of Judah remained intact during this time, it became a client state of first the Neo-Assyrian Empire and...

Assyrian folk/pop music, also known as Assyrian folk-pop, is the musical style of the Assyrian people derived from traditional music that includes a broad...

of Christianity. The Assyrians named their colonies of Syria and Lebanon Eber-Nari. Assyrian domination ended after the Assyrians greatly weakened themselves...

romanized: A-ki-ia; fl. c. 2050 BC) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 29th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. He is listed...

(Akkadian: 𒄩𒉡𒌑, romanized: Ḫa-nu-ú) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 10th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period, though he is...

list of historical and contemporary Assyrian settlements in the Middle East. This list includes settlements of Assyrians from Southeastern Anatolia who left...

(Akkadian: 𒊓𒈠𒉡, romanized: Sa-ma-nu) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 19th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. Samani is listed...

BCE, the Neo-Assyrian Empire under Sennacherib launched a military campaign to re-conquer the Levant, which had fallen out of Assyrian hands due to a...

of Assyrian ethnic enclaves, containing cities, districts, and neighborhoods with predominantly Assyrian population, or are associated with Assyrian culture...

and Hellenistic period ostraca found at Maresha. Assyrian records have transcribed in Neo-Assyrian Akkadian various variants of the name of the Qedar...

The Assyrian General Conference (AGC) (Syriac: ܠܘܡܕܐ ܐܫܘܪܝܐ ܓܘܢܝܐ) is a political organization representing Assyrians of today in Iraq. It was established...

in Sumerian times, when it was called Lamma, it was later depicted from Assyrian times as a hybrid of a human, bird, and either a bull or lion—specifically...

conquered and made into an Assyrian dependency, beginning in 734 BCE. He remained a king, paying tribute to the three Assyrian emperors until he was deposed...

reconstruction being based on mainly Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources. The history of Elam is conventionally divided...

bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and potentially the wealthiest city in the ancient world. Today...

Lebanese Arabic surname. The surname is most predominantly used by ethnic Assyrians from West Asia. Additionally, there is a plateau (Dhour Tamraz) in Bikfaya...

fundamentalism, that modern Germans are partly descended from the ancient Assyrians. In this belief system, the British are the sole descendants of the Ten...

administrative implication. It mostly incorporated the territories of Neo-Assyrian Empire corresponding to what is now northern Iraq in the upper Tigris,...

is an Assyrian-American singer known for her sentimental ballads and dance songs. The vast majority of her songs are sung in her native Assyrian Neo-Aramaic...

Christian communities. The vast majority of Iraqi Christians are indigenous Assyrians who descend from the ancient Assyria, followed by Armenians then the later...

Assyrians in New Zealand are New Zealanders of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have New Zealand citizenship. The Assyrian community in New Zealand began...

the Neo-Assyrian Empire under king Ashurbanipal, then at war with the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt under Tantamani, during the Assyrian conquest...

The 15-foot (4.6 m) statue depicting the Assyrian king of the same name was commissioned by the Assyrian Foundation for the Arts and presented to the...

(Akkadian: 𒀊𒀀𒍪, romanized: Ab-a-zu) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 13th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period, though he is...

addition to Old Persian and Assyrian, the cuneiform script had been used for a sister language, Babylonian. Babylonian and Assyrian had diverged around 2000...

Armenian Տայք Tayk, possibly Assyrian Daiaeni) was a tribal union located in northeastern Anatolia, that was recorded in Assyrian and Urartian sources during...

Shimun XXIII Ishaya, Mar Shimun Ishai, or Simon Jesse, was Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1920 until his murder on 6 November 1975 in San...

The Molossus (Greek: Μολοσσός, romanized: Molossós), also known as the Molossian hound and Epirus mollosus, is an extinct dog breed from Ancient Greece...

Assyrians in Austria (German: Assyrer in Österreich) are Austrians of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have Austrian citizenship. The Assyrian community...

boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Sennacherib (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀭𒌍𒉽𒈨𒌍𒋢, romanized: Sîn-aḥḥī-erība or Sîn-aḥḥē-erība, meaning...

Elamites and the Assyrians had been ongoing for many years prior to 721 BC, the first recorded conflict between Elamites and Assyrians. For many centuries...

centuries beginning with the reign of Ashur-dan II (934–912 BCE), the Neo-Assyrian Empire maintained a policy of enforcing population transfer within the...

The Assyrian Medical Society is an organization that offers medical care to Assyrians around the world. Its mission is "Serving our Assyrian Brothers and...

or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Tiglath-Pileser III (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒆪𒋾𒀀𒂍𒈗𒊏, romanized: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, meaning "my trust...

who was not contemporary with the northern kingdom of Israel, which the Assyrians had destroyed c. 720 BC, deporting much of its population. He re-instituted...

Shulgi mentioned the city of Urbilum. The city was later conquered by the Assyrians. In the 3rd millennium BC, Erbil was an independent power in its area...

boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Sîn-šar-iškun (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒌍𒌋𒌋𒃻𒌦, romanized: Sîn-šar-iškun or Sîn-šarru-iškun,...

Warde Deshe, is a 1991 Assyrian-Australian independent film written and directed by John Homeh. The film primarily features Assyrian musicians George Homeh...

Cordia myxa, also called sebesten plum, Assyrian plum, Indian cherry, glue berry, lasura, or bambar is a mid-sized, deciduous tree in the family Cordiaceae...

followed by Turkmen. Other ethnic groups from the country include Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandaeans, and other Mesopotamian Minorities. Approximately 95% of Iraqis...

September 1917 between the Assyrian volunteers of Agha Petros, supported by Russian Cossacks, against the Kurds of Soto Agha. The Assyrian forces initiated the...

(Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒆳𒋫𒁄 and 𒌷𒋫𒁄), later reorganised into Bīt-Burutaš (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒆳𒂍𒁹𒁍𒊒𒋫𒀾) or Bīt-Paruta (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian:...

Kingdom of Urartu and the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The war began around 714 BC, with the invasion of Urartu by the Assyrian King Sargon II. Sargon led multiple...

605 BCE between the armies of Egypt, allied with the remnants of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, against the armies of Babylonia. The forces would clash at Carchemish...

the year"), Akitu (ܐܟܝܬܘ), or Assyrian New Year,[unreliable source?] is the spring festival among the indigenous Assyrians of northern Iraq, northeastern...

or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. This article contains Neo-Assyrian cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question...

The Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BCE was a military conflict that took place around 1235 BCE.[chronology citation needed] It was fought between Babylonia...

emergence of the Ming dynasty in 1368. After centuries of hiatus, the first Assyrian Church of the East Divine Liturgy was celebrated in China in 2010. Jingjiao...

Assyrian Empire 910–612 B.C.", State Archives of Assyria Studies 11, Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1994 Shibata, Daisuke, "The Assyrian...

millennium BC until the end of antiquity, with some, such as Arabs, Arameans, Assyrians, Jews, Mandaeans, Samaritans and Amharic/Ethio-Semitic speakers having...

The Destruction of Sennacherib The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their...

of the Assyrian people. It was composed by Nebu Juel Issabey and written by Yosip Bet Yosip for the Assyrian Universal Alliance and the Assyrian independence...

Ḫabigalbat in old Babylonian texts, c. 1600 BC; Ḫanigalbat or Ḫani-Rabbat in Assyrian records, or Naharin in Egyptian and some Akkadian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking...

culture. In 604 BC, the Philistines, who had been under the rule of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC), were ultimately vanquished by Nebuchadnezzar II of...

The Assyrians in Finland (Finnish: Assyrialaiset) comprises migrants of Assyrian ancestry and their descendants born in Finland. In 2001, there were only...

Tyari (Syriac: ܛܝܵܪܹܐ, romanized: Ṭyārē) is an Assyrian tribe and a historical district within Hakkari, Turkey. The area was traditionally divided into...

(Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city Archevite Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk...

area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped. Much of present-day knowledge about Canaan...

refers to the Assyrian advance into the Aqra mountains toward the Zab river, during which a Kurdish resistance attempt failed. The Assyrian force, numbering...

Age. In the 8th century BC, it was annexed by the Assyrian Empire. The vassal states of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BC – 609 BC) had a unique relationship...

The Assyrian statue (British Museum number 124963) was originally set up near the temple of Ishtar in Nineveh (near the modern city of Mosul in northern...

father Phraortes lost his life in a battle against the Assyrians, probably Ashurbanipal. Assyrian allies, the Scythians then ruled Media for 28 years before...

for several years as the nominee of the Assyrian king Sennacherib. Sennacherib, believing that direct Assyrian rule was too costly, appointed Bēl-ibni...

groups descended from the historic Church of the East (also called the Assyrian Church), as well as the Eastern Catholic Churches (which are in communion...

Muslim people of Kirkuk by the Assyrian Levies on May 4, 1924 following a series of attacks initiated against the Assyrian people after their settlement...

the Assyrian volunteers against local Hakkari Kurdish tribesmen who the year prior, with the help of the Ottoman Empire, expelled the Assyrians from...

father's reign, leading armies in the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire. At the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar inflicted...

The Assyrian Socialist Party (Syriac: Gaba Shawtapaya Atouraya), abbreviated as ASP or GSA, is an Assyrian political party primarily active in Iraq. Its...

The Assyrian Democratic Party (Syriac: ܓܒܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ, romanized: Gabā Aṯurāyā Demoqraṭāyā, Arabic: الحزب الآشوري الديمقراطي; short: ADP) is an Assyrian...

cleansing of the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian populations—the Armenian genocide, Greek genocide, and Assyrian genocide respectively. The British...

assassinating the king during a battle against the Assyrians and the children of the east. The Assyrian king, Tiglath-Pileser III, took advantage of Israel's...

The queen (Assyrian: issi ekalli or sēgallu, lit. 'Woman of the Palace') of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the consort of the Neo-Assyrian king. Though the...

Envieh Takie (Syriac: ܫܪܠܝ ܐܢܒ݂ܝܗ ܬܟܝܐ, Persian: شارلی انویه تکیه) is an Assyrian engineer and politician originally from Iran. Originally an engineer, he...

a prominent regional power along the northeastern frontier of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, situated between major neighbors like Urartu and a constellation...

ancestry of the Islamic prophet Muhammad either to Kedar, or to Nebaioth. Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions refer to the Ishmaelites as Sumu'ilu, a tribal...

Israel's capital, but it is first documented after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which incorporated the land into the province of Samerina. Samaria...

primarily (though not wholly exclusively) by ethnic Assyrians, who are adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, Syriac...

was found at the site. The city was established as the capital of a new Assyrian province by Shalmaneser I (r. 1263-1234 BC) following the collapse of the...

population was exiled to other parts of the Assyrian Empire, and new groups were resettled in the newly established Assyrian province of Samaria. A small group...

been exiled from the Kingdom of Israel after it was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire around 720 BCE. They were the following tribes: Reuben, Simeon,...

home to Caucasian and Middle Eastern communities, such as Armenians, Assyrians, and Iranians, many of whom live in enclaves like Little Armenia and Tehrangeles...

and third, that the legend refers to a well-documented garden that the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704–681 BC) built in his capital city of Nineveh on the...

During the Middle Assyrian Empire (1392–1056 BC) and the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC), Phoenicia, what is today known as Lebanon and coastal Syria...

The Assyrian Confederation of Europe (ACE) is a European umbrella organisation for Assyrian national federations and organisations in Europe. It was formed...

worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar. Her primary title is "the Queen of Heaven". She was the patron...

Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀭𒊹𒉽𒀸, also 𒀭𒊹𒉽𒋧𒈾 Aššur-aḫa-iddina, meaning "Ashur has...

Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III are a group of Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions that record the military campaigns and administrative activities of Tiglath-Pileser...

The Assyrian Patriotic Party (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܒܐ ܐܬܪܢܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ, commonly known as Atranaya) is a political party in Iraq representing Assyrians that...

The Assyrian exodus from Iraq refers to the mass flight and expulsion of ethnic Assyrians from Iraq, a process which was initiated from the beginning...

Hurrian and Elamite territory. Sargon appears as a legendary figure in Neo-Assyrian literature of the 8th to 7th centuries BC. Tablets with fragments of a...

Assyrian Scouting and Guiding is composed of multiple small Assyrian Scouting associations, open mainly to boys and girls of Assyrian descent in Iraq...

Governorate. The region is home to many historical sites including the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, and the ruins of Hatra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which...

club based in Södertälje, Stockholm County. The club, formed in 1974 by Assyrian immigrants, has advanced through the league system and is currently playing...

an Assyrian author, journalist, professor, and a nationalist leader. He wrote the Assyrian manifesto and the novel Mount Semele. An ethnic Assyrian, Ivan's...

(Akkadian: 𒄩𒇷𒂊, romanized: Ḫa-le-e) was according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 18th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. Hale is listed...

Northeastern Syria is polyethnic and home to sizeable ethnic Arab, Kurdish, and Assyrian populations, with smaller communities of ethnic Turkmen, Armenians, Circassians...

from behind while she bends over drinking beer through a straw. Middle Assyrian lead votive figurines often portrayed a man standing and penetrating a...

advocating for a genocide of Turkmens and Assyrians. The group has previously been criticized by Assyrian organizations for spreading hatred against...

sources: in Parthian (𐭀𐭎𐭅𐭓𐭎𐭕𐭍), along with the Greek form ΑCCΥΡΙΑΝ (Assyrian), in Shapur I's (r. 240–270) inscription on the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht; in the...

Yauṯaʿ was a vassal king of Qedar under the Neo-Assyrian Empire who reigned in the 7th century BCE. He was the son of his predecessor, King Ḫazaʾil, assuming...

performed in Upper Mesopotamia as well. Assyrian references are available from the Middle Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian periods. During the reign of the Sargonid...

David Royel; 4 July 1975) is an Assyrian-American prelate currently serving as Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, headquartered...

Neo-Assyrian Empire entered a period of instability. This was the moment when the Babylonian ruler, Nabopolassar, led a revolt against Assyrian rule...

briefly changed hands with Israel before it was ultimately lost to the Neo-Assyrian Empire during Sennacherib's Levantine campaign. Scholars believe that the...

The Assyrian-Kurdish Clashes (1895-1900) were clashes between the Assyrians and Kurds, during the Hamidian massacres (until 1897, when the massacres were...

2001 in Sweden) was a praised Assyrian author and poet. He is known in the Assyrian community as one of the greatest Assyrian writer in the past century...

ܡܵܠܸܟ ܟ̰ܝܟܘ; 1934 - December 2, 1963) was an Iraqi Assyrian rebel leader and insurgent. He led the Assyrian armed struggle against successive Iraqi governments...

other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Anshar ( 𒀭𒊹 AN.ŠAR₂, Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀭𒊹, lit. 'whole sky') was a Mesopotamian god regarded as a...

Ancient (colonies) Akkadian Armenian Urartu Orontid Ancient Assyrian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Babylonian Old Babylonian Kassite Neo-Babylonian Chinese...

Aššur-uballiṭ II, also spelled Assur-uballit II and Ashuruballit II (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀸𒋩𒌑𒋾𒆷, romanized: Aššur-uballiṭ, meaning "Ashur has kept...

Rabi Yosip Bet Yosip (Assyrian: ܝܵܘܣܸܦ ܒܹܝܬܼ ܝܵܘܣܸܦ ) is an Assyrian poet. He was born in 1942 in the village of Zoomalan in Urmia, Iran. He is known for...

in other Assyrian colonies in Anatolia. Its spread was due to Shamshi-Adad I's unification of northern Mesopotamia. A number of Old Assyrian limmu lists...

Assyrian folk dances are sets of dances that are performed throughout the world by Assyrians, mostly on occasions such as weddings, community parties and...

slave-girl from the outskirts of Harran who lived at the time of the late Neo-Assyrian Empire and was heavily involved in the Sasî movement, which aimed to depose...

Rosie Malek-Yonan (born July 4, 1965) is an Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure and activist. Malek-Yonan became a noted pianist...

Babylonian scholar (third to fourth century) Ancient Mesopotamian religion Assyrian religion Religions of the ancient Near East Sumerian religion Tower of...

site date mainly to the Hurrian, Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian, Parthian, and Sassanian times. Under the Assyrians, it was named Kilizu (or Kakzu or even...

artist of Iraqi-Assyrian origin Ramina Odicho, Assyrian American comedian with origins from Syria William Ishaya Odisho, Iraqi-Assyrian former diplomat...

especially the Arab Revolt, and engaged in genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. In the aftermath of World War I, the victorious Allied Powers...

Sharlach 2002, p. 100. Litke 1998, p. 188. The Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince Archived 2021-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, line 30 Taracha 2009...

and Qal'at Sherqat, was the capital of the Middle Assyrian Empire for a time, of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BC) and a semi-independent state during...

ethnically Assyrian—though Armenian-speaking— migrants from Harput and Diyarbakır came to unite under the name "Assyrian Orthodox" or "Assyrian Apostolic"...

Musardeh, depending on the Assyrian dialect, is a traditional Assyrian festival celebrated during midsummer by members of the Assyrian Church of the East, the...

Rated, is an Assyrian American comedian and influencer. Odicho has used her platform as a place to express her appreciation of Assyrian culture, and speak...

II (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒈗𒁺, romanized: Šarru-kīn, meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from...

(Syriac: ܡܠܟ ܝܥܩܘܒ ܐܝܫܡܥܝܠ; February 12, 1894 – January 25, 1974) was an Assyrian tribal leader who served as the Malik (chief) of the Upper Tyari tribe...

in the 19th century, he was known for his involvement in attacks on the Assyrian and Yazidi populations. He was part of a triple alliance with Bedir Khan...

and religious reasons. References to impalement in Babylonia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire are found as early as the 18th century BC. Impaling an individual...

Ancient (colonies) Akkadian Armenian Urartu Orontid Ancient Assyrian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Babylonian Old Babylonian Kassite Neo-Babylonian Chinese...

Assyrian Universal Alliance (Syriac: ܚܘܝܕܐ ܬܒ̣ܝܠܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ, Arabic: الاتحاد الآشوري العالمي; Persian: اتحادیه جهانی آشوریان), usually abbreviated as AUA...

is an Assyrian political party based in Iraq. Founded in the 1970s, its platform emphasizes Assyrian nationalism and advocated for an Assyrian autonomous...

related to miṣru/miṣirru/miṣaru, meaning "border" or "frontier". The Neo-Assyrian Empire used the derived term , Mu-ṣur. Evidence of rock carvings along...

connected to the former northern Kingdom of Israel in the aftermath of the Assyrian captivity, developing in close but often contentious relationship with...

The Assyrian Modern Version is a New Testament and Psalms in modern Assyrian, published by the Bible Society in Lebanon (1997). The version is newly translated...

of the Assyrian Church of the East Shimun XIV Shlemon (1700–1740), Assyrian Church of the East Shimun XV Maqdassi Mikhail (1740–1780), Assyrian Church...

(born 4 July 1943) is a Finnish Assyriologist specializing in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Professor emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki...

variations) are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians. In the earliest Sumerian writings about them, which come...

720 BCE, the Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, triggering the Assyrian captivity; and around 586 BCE, the Kingdom of Judah was...

Kingdom in the 12th century BCE, and lasted until they were subdued by the Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BCE. They are grouped together by scholars on...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) or The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a nine-decade project at the...

Elia was born in San Diego, California on February 23, 1988, to Iraqi Assyrian immigrant parents. His family moved to Southfield in Metro Detroit in 1994...

(Syriac: ܡܝܠܣ ܙܝܥܐ ), known as Mar Meelis Zaia, is the Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ܕܐܬܘܖ̈ܝܐ), presiding...

distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac', 'Assyrian', or 'Syrian'. In its West-Syriac tradition, Classical Syriac is often...

Hittites came into conflict with the Assyrians from the mid-14th to the 13th centuries BC, losing territory to the Assyrian kings of the period. However they...

August (Western Christianity) 15 June (Eastern Christianity) 4 November (Assyrian) Attributes Crozier, mitre, young child, book, small church, flaming or...

Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. Since 2008, he has served as Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period...

system in 2019. Governorates under the KRG did not participate. For the Assyrians, reserved seats were allocated in the following governorates: Basra, Baghdad...

known primarily from Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions, which document interactions between Arab rulers and the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Adia was the wife...

was an ethnic Assyrian Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Siirt in Upper Mesopotamia. He was killed by the Ottomans during the 1915 Assyrian genocide. Addai...

The Kurdish Mastiff, Assyrian Shepherd, or Pişder dog (Kurdish: سەگی پشدەری, romanized: Segî Pişderî) is a dog landrace native to the mountainous Kurdistan...

purposes — a precursor to Arabization centuries later — including among the Assyrians and Babylonians who permanently replaced their Akkadian language and its...

Tatian the Assyrian, (/ˈteɪʃən, -iən/; Latin: Tatianus; Ancient Greek: Τατιανός; Classical Syriac: ܛܛܝܢܘܣ; c. 112 – c. 180 AD) was an Assyrian Christian...

Kurdish attack on an Assyrian repatriation camp named Jujar located in Mindan, Iraq. Although the Kurdish force outnumbered the Assyrians, the assault failed...

Turkmens, Yazidis, Assyrians, Armenians, Doms, and Shabaks. Arabic and Kurdish are the official languages of Iraq, while Assyrian (Suret), Turkmen and...

in Maltese, መብረቅ mebrek’ in Amharic, Akkadian (aka Assyrian, Babylonian, Barku) and Neo-Assyrian Syriac (Barkho). During the 3rd century BC, the Barcids...

Srood Salem Matti Maqdasy is an Assyrian physician, politician, and former member of the Kurdistan Region Parliament in Iraq. Maqdasy stood out as one...

sources Serua) was a Mesopotamian goddess closely associated with the Assyrian head god Ashur. It is uncertain in which way they were related to each...

Ḫanigalbat) or king of the land of Hanigalbat (šar māt Ḫanigalbat) was an Assyrian vassal ruler, essentially a viceroy, in the territory of the Kingdom of...

This is a list of famous Assyrian-Iranians. Sooren Alexander 1935-2007 born in Hamadan, Iran -musical composer & musician (younger brother of Sargon Mayelian)...

Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project is an international scholarly project aimed at collecting and publishing ancient Assyrian texts of the Neo-Assyrian Empire...

the Netherlands. She is most well known for her political advocacy for Assyrians and their human rights in West Asia, as well as for her participation...

or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. This article contains Neo-Assyrian cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question...

Hussein at the site of what was once the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. Once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nimrud (known also by its biblical name...

that PUGNUS-mili was in turn, the son of an earlier king Arnuwanti I. The Assyrian records state that the King of Assyria Tiglath-Pileser I (r. 1114–1076...

name Urartu (Armenian: Ուրարտու; Assyrian: māt Urarṭu; Babylonian: Urashtu; Hebrew: אֲרָרָט ʾĂrārāṭ) comes from Assyrian sources. Shalmaneser I (1263–1234 BC)...

Ilias Assyrian homeland Proposals for Assyrian autonomy in Iraq Assyrian settlements "The Struggle to Exist, Part II: Violence against Assyrian Communities...

concentrations of people of Middle Eastern origin, including Arabs and Chaldo-Assyrians in the United States. As of 2007 about 300,000 people in Southeast Michigan...

ܕܲܘܪܵܢܵܝܹܐ) is a secular, leftist, national liberation movement among the Assyrian people. Ideologically characterized by progressive ideas and including...

but subsequently declined under the expansion of empires such as the Neo-Assyrian and Achaemenid. Their influence nevertheless endured in the western Mediterranean...

The British Betrayal of the Assyrians is a book published in 1935 written by Yusuf Malek. As Malek was an Assyrian who fought alongside the British during...

Yusuf Malek (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܘܣܦ ܡܠܟ; March 28, 1899 – 1959) was an Assyrian politician, author, and Allied interpreter. He initially served with...

centuries of the 2nd millennium BC, an Assyrian trade colony existed in the city of Hattush, and several Assyrian inscriptions mention (usually by office...

Betkolia (Syriac: ܝܘܢܬܢ ܒܝܬܟܘܠܝܐ) is an Assyrian politician and former member of the Iranian Parliament. An Assyrian from Urmia, he was a member of the Iranian...

Gurgum in Assyrian sources, while its native name seems to have been Kurkuma for the reason that the capital of Gurgum—Marqas in Assyrian sources (today...

the West Syriac Rite. The East Syriac Rite (also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite) uses the Liturgy of Addai and Mari. It is the rite of...

Oshnavieh, in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran, fought between the Assyrian volunteers led by Agha Petros and the Ottoman Empire, reinforced by local...

a piece of Assyrian-style leather armor that was dated to be from 786-543 BCE in northwest China and was manufactured in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The...

iconography is particularly frequent in art from the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE), and especially Assyrian palace reliefs from this period. In some instances...

Tegarama (Old Assyrian: Tergarma; Hittite: Takarama; Luwian: Lakarma/Lukarma) was a city in Anatolia during the Bronze Age. It is often identified with...

The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, a sequence of Assyrian palace reliefs, Nineveh, Mesopotamia, 7th century BCE...

Latest editions of the Old Babylonian, Standard Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian (Late Assyrian) versions of the myth are published in the electronic Babylonian...

Babylon. He became king of Babylon around 1333 BC. He was the son of the Assyrian princess Muballitat-Sherua and the Babylonian king who preceded him. His...

Sammuramat or Shamiram and Semiramis, was a powerful queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Beginning her career as the primary queen consort of the king Shamshi-Adad...

Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian subjects. Following Ottoman defeat, the Turkish War of Independence resulted...

chariots with short-spear-armed riders and the arrow-armed Egyptian and Assyrian two-man chariots.[citation needed] Nestor spearheads his troops with chariots;...

Assyrian Empire (c. 2025–1364 BC), Middle Assyrian Empire (c. 1363–912 BC), and Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 911–609 BC). The region fell to the Assyrians'...

ܣܲܪܓܘܿܢ) is an Assyrian American activist. She is the first ethnic Assyrian to be elected to the Lincolnwood Board of Trustees and the first Assyrian woman elected...

the Assyrian Volunteers, led by Agha Petros and Malik Khoshaba, and Ottoman Empire force led by Halil Kut. In the summer of 1915, the Assyrians of Hakkari...

Assyrian Christians between the Tigris and Lake Urmia, stretching north to Lake Van and southwards to Mosul and Kirkuk. As a result of the Assyrian genocide...

1960s composing Assyrian songs. Later, he would move to Sweden where he founded the Assyrian National Federation and bring Sweden's Assyrian community together...

(Syriac: ܐܓܐ ܦܛܪܘܣ), was an Assyrian military leader and warlord, best known for his role during World War I. He commanded both Assyrian and Armenian forces that...

the ancient literature written in the East Semitic Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia)...

Our Smallest Ally: a brief account of the Assyrian Nation in the Great War is a book published in 1920 by William A. Wigram. Can Great Britain, now that...

Assyrian Canon[,] Hadrach is the object of three Assyrian expeditions." According to George L. Klein, Hadrach has been identified with the Assyrian place-name...

site near Duhok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The caves contain the Assyrian relief carvings known as the Maltai reliefs. The cave is located seven...

hypostasis of Išḫara associated with Ebla who reached Assyria in the Middle Assyrian period through Hurrian intermediaries. Išḫara was associated with love...

sometimes punitive; under Assyrian law, homosexual acts were punishable by castration. Eunuchs were familiar figures in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Akkadian: ša...

Ktav Ashuri (Hebrew: כְּתָב אַשּׁוּרִי, k'tav ashurí, lit. "Assyrian Writing") also (Ktav) Ashurit, is the traditional Hebrew language name of the Hebrew...

appears in Assyrian royal inscriptions, before the Assyrian kings even gained control over Babylonia. In continuation from the Middle Assyrian times, an...

of Sydney, Camperdown, was created by Assyrian-Australian artist Lewis Batros on commission from the Assyrian community, and unveiled in 2000. The 2...

On 1 April 2025, a Syrian refugee conducted an attack against Assyrians celebrating the annual Kha b-Nisan festival in Duhok, Iraq. The perpetrator, Luay...

Middle Eastern theatre Battle of Robat Karim Arab Revolt Armenian genocide Assyrian genocide Mount Lebanon starvation Unification of Saudi Arabia Simko Shikak...

adherents are ethnic Assyrians, mostly living in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, India (Chaldean Syrian Church), and in the Assyrian diaspora. It is officially...

language, also known as Surayt, a Central Neo-Aramaic language spoken by Assyrians in southern Turkey and northern Syria (as well as Mesopotamia) Mlahsô...

engagement between Ottoman authorities and Assyrian defenders in 1915, during the events of the Assyrian genocide. The defence of Iwardo is coupled with...

primarily composed of ethnic Assyrians, they also include Arab and Armenian irregulars from the same countries. Assyrians in Iraq have formed militias...

Kashish (1901 – July 14, 1979), better known as David Barsum Perley, was an Assyrian nationalist writer and activist. Originally of the Syriac Orthodox Church...

series of clashes and an Islamist uprising in the city of Urmia between the Assyrian Volunteers, led by Agha Petros and Malik Khoshaba, against the city mayor...

sources. One member of the House of Astiruwa may also be referred to in Assyrian sources. Astiruwa, also Astiru, was the first known ruler of the dynasty...

commonly referred to as Aram. After the final conquest by the rising Neo-Assyrian Empire in the second half of the 8th century BCE and also during the later...

Empire. By the mid 2nd millennium BCE, use of the name "Gutium", by the Assyrians and Babylonians of Mesopotamia, was extended to include all foreigners...

سهل نينوى) or NPU is an Assyrian paramilitary organization that was formed in late 2014, largely but not exclusively by Assyrians in Iraq to defend themselves...

month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, and the modern Assyrian calendar. It is a month of 29 days, which occurs on the Gregorian calendar...

son of the Scythian king Bartatua and the Assyrian princess Šērūʾa-ēṭirat, and, as an ally of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which was then the superpower of...

first Assyrian political party, the Assyrian Socialist Party, and a prominent early advocate for Assyrian independence. He is remembered by Assyrians today...

England priest and author, notable for his work with and writings on the Assyrian Church of the East. William Wigram, a younger son of Woolmore Wigram, was...

period, confirm the existence of three Late Assyrian cubits or "kus" as the measure was called in Assyrian literature: The standard cubit (approximately...

and inhabited by Assyrians of the Upper Tyari tribe in the late 1930s, the town is predominantly populated by Arabs, with Assyrians remaining a substantial...

rebelled against the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the short-lived Assyrian conquest of Egypt. His struggle against the Assyrians gave rise to a whole cycle...

between the Assyrian Volunteers led by Agha Petros And the Ottoman soldiers led by Kheiri Bey who were stationed in Suldouze. 1,500 Assyrian horsemen overcame...

the Neo-Assyrian Empire led by Emperor Shalmaneser III encountered an allied army of eleven kings at Qarqar led by Hadadezer, called in Assyrian Adad-idir...

The Nochiya (Syriac: ܢܵܘܟ̰ܝܼܵܐ, pl.: Nochiyaye,) are an Assyrian tribe that were based in and around the villages of Beyyurdu and Öveç in the Şemdinli...

The siege of Azekah was a battle between the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah. It preceded the Siege of Lachish, making it the first known...

The Assyrian Studies Association (ASA), formerly the Assyrian Academic Society, is an academic, educational and minority organization of Assyrians in the...

DLASTHR (The Last Hour) is an Assyrian criminal organization that is active in the south western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The group is said to have...

Eastern Christian prelate who served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in the village of Darbandokeh (Derbendoki)...

Adad-nirari I, king of Assyria. King Wasashatta of Mittani rebelled against the Assyrians and sought the help of the Hittites, but received none. Adad-nirari I...

includes the heartlands of the Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, Neo-Assyrian, and Neo-Babylonian empires, which dominated Mesopotamia and much of the...

tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her city, Bethulia. With this act, she saves nearby...

Hittite sources. In the Neo-Assyrian period, it was apparently the center of a small independent buffer state on Assyrian borders. Its ultimate fate remains...

main deity of Kanesh, an Anatolian city which in the Old Assyrian period served as an Assyrian trading colony. Multiple possibilities regarding her origin...

headlines relevant to the Assyrian genocide in chronological order, as recorded in newspaper archives. Assyrian genocide Assyrian war of independence Qarabash...

Minor, and the Levant, arguably making the Assyrians one of the best ancient empires. In fact, the Assyrians were so advanced in strategies such as siege...

Charah (12–17 March 1918) or Charah Expedition took place between the Assyrian Volunteers led by Agha Petros and Malik Khsoshaba against Shekak tribesmen...

Union of Assyrians "Khoyad-Atur" (Russian: Всероссийский Союз Ассирийцев «Хояд-Атур», abbreviated ВСА/VSA), also called the Union of Assyrians, Residents...

successor of "Budili" who is known only from Assyrian transcribed tax lists. He is mentioned as a vassal of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pilesar III. Sanipu paid...

Benjamin Arsanis (Syriac: ܒܢܝܐܡܝܢ ܐܪܣܐܢܝܣ; 1884–1957) was an Assyrian politician, writer, teacher and historian. Arsanis was, together with Freydun Atturaya...

subsequently contested and occupied by several empires, including the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Persians, from whom it was seized in 333 BC by Alexander...

It has since come under the sway of various empires, including the Neo-Assyrian, the Neo-Babylonian, the Achaemenid Persian, the Macedonian (of Alexander...

represent the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people. The alliance comprises these five parties: Assyrian Democratic Movement Assyrian Patriotic Party Beth Nahrin...

The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary is a cathedral of the Assyrian Church of the East, located in West Ealing area of the London Borough of Ealing, England...

of Assyria, Limmu was an Assyrian eponym (a person after whom something is named). At the beginning of the reign of an Assyrian king, the limmu, an appointed...

titles and elements of earlier kings but applying new royal traditions. In Assyrian royal titulary, emphasis would typically be placed on the strength and...

as Chronicle 3, states of the Battle of Nineveh between Babylonian and Assyrian armies that "in the month Âbu[broken anchor] the king of Akkad and his...

the City of Fairfield. The suburb has one of the highest proportions of Assyrian people in the Sydney area and Australia per se. Aboriginal people from...

have attempted to attribute the inspiration behind Nimrod to one or more Assyrian, Akkadian or Babylonian kings, or to the Assyro-Babylonian god Ninurta...

Dayabun or Faishkhabour was fought between Assyrians and the Iraqi army on August 4-5 in 1933. A group of Assyrians being led by Malik Yaqo and Malik Loko...

Criminal organizations composed of ethnic Assyrians...

in 1692, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East until 1700 Shimun XIV Shlemon (1700–1740), Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Shimun XV...

celebration, held on the first day of the Assyrian and Babylonian Nisan in ancient Mesopotamia and in Assyrian communities around the world, to celebrate...

in the south. In 609 BC, after about a century of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ruling both Assyria and Babylonia, the Neo-Babylonian Empire destroyed...

while others originated from Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Church of the East groups who were inspired by the teachings of Western...

Israel Assyrians Assyrians in Armenia Assyrians in Georgia Assyrians in Iran Assyrians in Iraq Assyrians in Israel Assyrians in Jordan Assyrians in Lebanon...

Month names from the Babylonian calendar appear in the Hebrew calendar, Assyrian calendar, Syriac calendar, Old Persian calendar, and Turkish calendar....

vertical DIŠ. The relevant shape for the classification of a sign is the Neo-Assyrian one (after ca. 1000 BC); the standardization of sign shapes of this late...

between the Urartian and Assyrian sphere of influence. The exact location of Hubushkia is unknown. The kingdom appears in the Assyrian annals of the tenth...

that opened in Adana in 1919 for orphaned Assyrian children who survived the Assyrian genocide. The Assyrian National School Association, established in...

Mar Mari Emmanuel (born Robert Shlimon; 19 July 1970) is an Assyrian Australian prelate. He is the bishop of Christ The Good Shepherd Church (CTGSC) in...

Emesal dialect.) The plural of diĝir can be diĝir-diĝir, among others. The Assyrian sign DIĜIR (ASH ⟨𒀸⟩ and MAŠ ⟨𒈦⟩, see could mean: the Akkadian nominal...

century BC, before the Assyrian conquest. A king named Shattuara is suggested to have ruled Hanigalbat during the reign of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I...

Deioces was the first Median king to have gained independence from the Neo-Assyrian Empire and governed for 53 years. After Deioces' death, his son, Phraortes...

the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Mannai had ceased to be useful as a buffer zone for Neo-Assyrian power, while the Mannaeans began to see the Neo-Assyrian imperial...

Emanuel Yousif Kamber is an Assyrian physics professor at Western Michigan University and was the Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance. He...

and Arabia to the south. During the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1050 BC), Syria (apart from the Assyrian northeast corner) was known as Amurru ('The...

Neo-Aramaic is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic spoken by ethnic Assyrians in the Barwari region of Iraq and Turkey. Khan 2009, p. 29. Khan, Geoffrey...

On 10 September 2025, Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old disabled Assyrian Christian from Iraq, was stabbed to death in Lyon, France while doing a livestream...

Shulmanu or Shulman (Assyrian Akkadian: Salmānu, Babylonian Akkadian: Šulmānu) was an ancient Mesopotamian deity. The deity is only ever recorded as having...

The Assyrian International News Agency is a privately funded, independent news agency which provides news and analysis on Assyrian and Assyrian-related...

or Shupria was a kingdom in the southern Armenian highlands, known from Assyrian sources in the first half of the 1st millennium BC. It was located north...

"Damascus". It is also referred to as "Aram" in some Aramaic inscriptions. In Assyrian sources, "Aram" was never used to designate it, which was often referred...

The state communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire allowed the Assyrian king and his officials to send and receive messages across the empire quickly...

part of Tehran. In 1964, some of the Assyrian Iranian community began moving to Shahr-e ziba; the first Assyrian girls school, Hazrat Maryam, was opened...

(born 1942) is an Assyrian-Iranian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the once important Assyrian town of Golpashan...

Suppiluliuma, who was defeated by the Assyrians. The Assyrian king, Shalmaneser III, made Pattin into an Assyrian tributary, and Halparuntiya sent tribute...

Anubanini with the Assyrian-Babylonian goddess Ishtar, captives in tow, is now thought to date to the Ur-III period; however, a later Assyrian- Babylonian legendary...

worshippers frequently dedicated small models of seated dogs to her. In the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, dogs served as emblems of magical protection...

Hebrew; however, Mishnah Megillah refers to the language as Ashurit, meaning Assyrian, which is derived from the name of the alphabet used, in contrast to Ivrit...

حرس الخابور الآشوري) is an Assyrian militia in Syria created after the collapse of Syrian government control in the Assyrian-majority Khabur valley in...

(Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒁹𒀭𒀝𒊺𒍦𒀀𒉌 and 𒁹𒀭𒉺𒊺𒍦𒀭𒉌 Nabu-šezibanni), meaning "O Nabu, save me!" by the Assyrians. In 671 BCE, the Assyrian king...

belongs to the Nahiya Tell Tamer. The village is inhabited by Assyrians belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East. At the 2004 census, it had a population...

Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince is a Neo-Assyrian text dated to the 7th century BCE. Called the "first tour of hell", it describes a vivid journey...

according to the Assyrian King List (AKL) the 27th Assyrian monarch, ruling in Assyria's early period. He also appears within the Assyrian King List as the...

Musri (Assyrian: Mu-us-ri), or Muzri, was a small ancient kingdom, in northern areas of Iraqi Kurdistan. The area is now inhabited by Muzuri Kurds. Musri...

Gadatas (Ancient Greek: Γαδάτας) was a 6th-century BC Assyrian provencial governor (or satrap) who, according to Xenophon's Cyropaedia, defected to Cyrus...

conquest of the Assyrian Empire. Babylonian king Nabopolassar with the help of other rebellion forces succeeded by driving the Assyrians back to the Little...

The Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (CSAPC, Syriac: ܡܘܬܒܐ ܥܡܡܝܐ ܟܠܕܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ Motḇā ʿammāyā kaldāyā suryāyā āṯurāyā, Arabic: المجلس الشعبي...

currently lives in Frederick, Maryland. He is the author of the 1987 novel The Assyrian and its sequel, The Blood Star, following the fictionalised history of...

liberation of Mosul, additional excavations revealed the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace beneath the mosque. In 1349, the remains of Hnanisho I were exhumed...

Ištuanda (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒌷𒄑𒌅𒀭𒁕) or Ištunda (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒌷𒅖𒌅𒌦𒁕) was a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite state which existed in the...

invasion of Iraq, Assyrians constituted a sizeable population of 1.5 million, and belonged to various different churches such as the Assyrian Church of the...

Assyrians in Mexico (Syriac: ܣܘܪ̈ܝܐ ܕܡܟܣܝܩܘ, Spanish: Asirios en México), or Mexican Assyrians, are Assyrian people or people of Assyrian descent living...

It has been suggested that the name is a foreign ethnic designation (Assyrian) borrowed from another foreign ethnic designation (Hurrian) - nuwā-um....

Arabic and Assyrian calendars Tammuz (Mandaean month), in the Mandaean calendar Tammuz (mythology), a supernatural creature from Assyrian-Babylonian Mesopotamian...

back. Its maritime importance is indicated by the inscriptions of the Assyrian kings. Tiglath-pileser I (c. 1020 BC) boasts that he sailed in the ships...

Qāws-melek or Qāws-malāk) was the king of Udumi (Edom) during the reign of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III. His name references the deity Qaus and can be...

destruction of the Assyrian city of Nineveh. Scholars with a preference for Hebrew manuscripts place the writing of the book after the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's...

reign from 740/39 to 736/735 BCE, at which time he was deposed by the pro-Assyrian faction in favor of his son Ahaz. Thiele places his death in 732/731 BCE...

the Church of the East; it is still used in two successor churches, the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East, the heads of which...

The 2018 Assyrian elections in Iraq were the first elections since the Islamic State invasion of Iraq, including the Assyrian heartland, the Nineveh Plains...

The Kassites (/ˈkæsaɪts/; Neo-Assyrian: 𒂵𒅆𒄿, ka₃-ši-i, kašši) were a people of the ancient Near East, originating from the Zagros Mountains. They controlled...

underneath a destruction layer caused by Sennacherib, who reigned over the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705 BCE to 681 BCE. While none of the original stamp seals...

The royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room...

dying in 732/731 BC. This explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and...

earliest evidence for lamellar armour comes from sculpted artwork of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BC) in the Near East.[citation needed] Lamellar armour...

in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Bengali, Hindi and Urdu and can refer to: Zinda Magazine, an online magazine serving the Syriac-speaking ethnic Assyrian Christian...

Mandaeans, who use it for baptism. In ancient times the Tigris nurtured the Assyrian Empire, with remnants such as the relief of King Tiglath-Pileser. Today...

many Assyrians were killed in the 1895 massacres of Diyarbekir. However the violence worsened after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, despite Assyrian hopes...

Salmanu was king of Moab during the reign of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III (ruled 745–727 BCE). He is mentioned in a clay inscription found in...

belonging to Philistia and Phoenicia ruled the Palestinian coast. The Assyrians conquered the region in the 8th century BCE, then the Babylonians c. 601 BCE...

Christian denomination, based in Thrissur, in India. It is part of the greater Assyrian Church of the East and is organised a singular Metropolitan (Archdiocese)...

Aramaization of Assyria was the Aramean impact on the Assyrian Empire, marked by the spread of Aramaic language and practices after western conquests and...

Christiaan Cicek (born 3 December 1988) is a Dutch retired footballer of Assyrian descent who played as a striker. Cicek joined Topklasse side FC Lienden...

several distinct cultures, which includes Sumerians and Akkadians (Ancient Assyrians and Babylonians), spanning a period from the 10th millennium BC (when...

the central western Zagros mountains of Iran, frequently attested in Neo-Assyrian records. Parsua appears to have consisted originally of a number of small...

This article covers the discography of Assyrian musician Ashur Bet Sargis. The Syriac/Assyrian writing for the album's cover was done by Ibrahim Namo...

Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East between 2015 and 2021. On 18 September 2015, the Holy Synod of the Assyrian Church of the East elected...

BC), where they were actively involved in rebellion against the Assyrians. Neo-Assyrian texts of the 9th century BC further mention the Arabs (Aribi),...

then Assyrians occupying the country in the 13th - 12th centuries and 10th - 7th centuries respectively. Following the collapse of the Assyrian Empire...

ܚܢܢ ܓܓܘ; Arabic: كامل حنا ججو; c. 1960s – 18 October 1988) was an Iraqi Assyrian bodyguard, valet, and food taster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He...

as of 2014) Armenian Catholic Church Latin Church Assyrian Evangelical Church Presbyterian Assyrian Pentecostal Church Pentecostal Jamaʿat-e Rabbani (Iranian...

Ashurit may refer to: Assyrian "Of Assyria" (in Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew) Ashur (god), the national God of Assyria Ktav Ashuri or "Assyrian script", the Hebrew...

1846 of Assyrian Christians were carried out by the Kurdish emirs of Bohtan and Hakkari, Bedir Khan Beg and Nurullah Beg along with allied Assyrian tribes...

according to itself, the author of the Book of Joel, which is set in the early Assyrian period. Scholars meanwhile view the Book of Joel as having been completed...

ܚܕܒܫܒܐ ܝܘܣܦ) was an Assyrian tribal leader (or "malik") of the Tyari tribe (Bit Tyareh) who played a significant role in the Assyrian independence movement...

Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1020 BCE) eventually eclipsing the Hittites, Mitanni and Kassite Babylonians. Following the end of the Middle Assyrian Empire...

or Բրքիշո Ասորի) was a catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Assyrian origin, from 429 to 432. Bahram V appointed Brkisho, a Syrian. Brkisho...

while the remainder includes ethnic groups such as Abkhazians, Armenians, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis, Greeks, Jews, Kists, Ossetians, Russians, Ukrainians, Yezidis...

the Old Testament canon. The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Assyrian churches may have differences in their lists of accepted books. Some Christian...

ended with the murder of Jehoram of Israel by Jehu in c. 841 BCE. Five Assyrian records are known to refer to either "Land of Omri" or "House of Omri"...

112), also transliterated Rʻuṯassor, Rʻūṯ’assor or Rʻūṯassor, was a local Assyrian king or city-lord in the early 2nd century AD, ruling the city of Assur...

city was under Assyrian control. When Aramaic tribes moved into northern Mesopotamia, one of them, called Temanites by the Assyrians, managed to snatch...

population is 120,069 (2022). The town is populated by Kurds, Mhallami and Assyrians. The old Estel neighborhood is about 80 to 85% Kurdish-populated. Midyat...

considers the Feast of the Annunciation as a liturgical holiday. In the Assyrian Church of the East, on the second Sunday of the season, the congregation...

millennium BC, and they continued in use until the end of the Neo-Assyrian Period, c. 612 BC. Assyrian scribes compiled limmu lists, including an unbroken sequence...

been a proponent of numerous initiatives pertaining to ethnic Assyrians. According to Assyrian American activist Atour Sargon, Schakowsky was an early supporter...

Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Ancient Church of the East, which all understand...

BC). Later, Ninurta was revered as a formidable warrior by the Assyrians. The Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC) had a large temple built...

the Assyrian Association magazine would serve as an inspiration for Assyrian nationalists in the 1950s, including the formation of the Assyrian Democratic...

Represented by traditional costumes worn in the ancient Assyrian royal court, Azadoota is the only modern Assyrian act to target their presentations specifically...

between upper and lower Zab and was a part of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and inhabited by Assyrians even after the fall of Nineveh. It was an integral part...

2001, p. 84. Wigram, W. A. (2004), An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church, or, The Church of the Sassanid Persian Empire, 100–640 A.D, Gorgias...

different orders. The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Assyrian churches include the Deuterocanonical books, which are not included in...

was separated into four parts corresponding to the four quarters of the Assyrian's known world. These were Amurru to the west, Elam to the east, Subartu...

ܝܘܣܦ ܦܛܪܘܣ), also known as Basmah Yousif Putros (born 1963) is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was Minister of Science and Technology in the Iraqi Transitional...

Retrieved 2009-09-05. Assyrian International News Agency. “Assyrian Folk Songs and Cultural Memory.” AINA, https://www.aina.org/ . Assyrian Cultural Foundation...

the islands in the Aegean Sea.[citation needed] Some letters of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BC record attacks by what appear to be Ionians...

– January 4, 2009) was an Assyrian American minority rights activist and Illinois state senator. Born in Chicago to Assyrian parents who had emigrated...

Baghdad and situated on the banks of Tigris. The ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, once the largest city in the world, are on the east side...

Malek-Yonan (born 1965), Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure, and activist Yusuf Malek, Iranian-Iraqi Assyrian politician Málek, Czech...

the Assad government because of its secularism, opposition exists among Assyrian Christians who have claimed that the Assad government seeks to use them...

founding of Rome). The Neo-Assyrian Empire established its control over the area and ruled through vassals who are named in Assyrian records. Menander's Tyrian...

mentioned in the Assyrian relief in 730/727 BC, stored in the British Museum. It is a town where Levites lived. The relief depicts the Assyrians removing the...

its form to later Assyrian epics such as that of Shalmaneser III, concerning his campaign in Ararat. Written strictly from the Assyrian point of view, it...

Bit Agusi in ancient Syria; he was the son of Arames (Hadram, Hadrame; Assyrian: Adramu, Arame). The capital of Bit Agusi at that time was Arpad. His father...

groups, with Kurds forming the majority, while other minorities include Assyrians, Yazidis, Armenians, and Arabs. The city also hosts tens of thousands...

series of cuneiform inscriptions detailing the military actions of the Assyrian ruler Sargon II between 720 BCE and 705 BCE. The Annals were unearthed...

Neo-Assyrian Empire. Dated to around 737 BCE, it is written in Akkadian and was discovered in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, hence the name. The Assyrian king...

commander in chief (turtanu) of the Assyrian army who rose in high prominence. He was active during the reigns of Assyrian kings Adad-nirari III (810–782 BC)...

Mullissu-mukannishat-Ninua (Akkadian: Mullissu-mukannišat-Nīnua) was a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as the primary consort of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC). She...

Khinnis is an Assyrian archaeological site, also known as Bavian (its neighbouring village), in Duhok Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is...

his cousin Tantamani, were filled with constant conflict with the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Around 670 BC, emperor Esarhaddon (681–669 BC) conquered Lower...

of Assyrian sculpture. Winged genies are usually bearded male figures sporting birds' wings. The Genii are a reappearing trait in ancient Assyrian art...

the late Ottoman genocides: the Armenian genocide, Greek genocide, and Assyrian genocide, the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the emigration...

After the death of Assurbanipal in 627 BC, the Neo-Assyrian empire entered a period of instability caused by fighting between Sin-shar-ishkun and his brother...

The following is a list of Assyrian tribes. Prior to the First World War, Assyrians in the historical region of Hakkari were organised into ashiret (independent)...

the Mediterranean. Subsequently, foreign powers, starting with the Neo-Assyrian Empire, imposed tribute and attacked non-compliant cities. The Neo-Babylonian...

William D. S. Daniel, (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܘܠܝܡ ܕܢܝܐܝܠ; March 17, 1903 – 1988) was an Assyrian writer, poet and musician. He was born in Urmia, Iran...

seven minor war gods in Neo-Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and especially Assyrian tradition. They also appear in sources from Emar. Multiple different interpretations...

It mostly consists of Assyrians from Turkey and Assyrian, Arab and Kurdish Iraqis. The leader is Süyar Gürbüz an ethnic Assyrian from Turkey. In 2025,...

This is a list of Aramaic place names; list of the names of places as they exist in the Aramaic language....

of Nareg in Baghdad Saint Ahoadamah Church, Tikrit St. Zay'ā Cathedral (Assyrian Church of the East), Mechanics’ Quarter, Dora, Baghdad Wikimedia Commons...