Assyrian

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Assyrian may refer to:

Assyrian People

Total population
3.3 Million
Regions with significant populations
Iraq, Syria, Iran , Turkey , USA , Sweden , Jordan , Germany , Australia
Languages
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Religion
Christianty

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)
• Assyria (Persian province), a province of the Achaemenid Empire
• 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 centuries BC.

contemporarily:

• Assyrian people, a present-day Middle Eastern ethnic group
• the East Syrian Rite
  • Assyrian Church of the East
  • Chaldean Catholic Church
  • Ancient Church of the East
  • Assyrian Evangelical Church
• 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

other:

• SS Assyrian, a British merchant ship

[edit] See also

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

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