Assyrian

Assyrian may refer to:

In antiquity

• ancient Assyria
  • the Old Assyrian period (Middle Bronze Age)
  • the Middle Assyrian period (Late Bronze Age)
  • the Neo-Assyrian period (Early Iron Age)
• Either of two provinces of the Persian Empire:
  • Achaemenid Assyria
  • Asuristan (Parthian and Sassanid Assyria)
• Assyria (Roman province), a short-lived province of the Roman Empire
• Asuristan, a province of the Sassanid Empire
• The Old Assyrian, Middle Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian stages of the Akkadian language, the written language of the Assyrian Empire from the 20th to 7th century BC

Contemporarily

• Assyrian cuisine
• Assyrian people, the present-day Middle Eastern ethnic Assyrians descendant from the ancient Assyrians
• the East Syrian Rite
  • Assyrian Church of the East
  • Chaldean Catholic Church
  • Ancient Church of the East
• the West Syrian Rite
  • Syriac Orthodox Church
  • Syriac Catholic Church

In languages

• The Ancient Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language
  • Aramaic language
  • Syriac language
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
  • Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

Other

• SS Assyrian, a British merchant ship
• The Assyrian (website), an Australian news website
• The Assyrian (novel), a 1987 novel by Nicholas Guild

See also

• Assyria (disambiguation)
• Names of Syriac Christians
• Upper Mesopotamia