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The '''Assyrian homeland''' or '''Assyrian Triangle''' refers to the [Ninawa Governorate|Ninawa]]-[[Mosul]] region inhabited traditionally by the [[Assyrian people]].<ref>Minorities in the Middle East: a history of struggle and self-expression By Mordechai Nisan</ref><ref>The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great By Arther Ferrill - Page 70</ref> |
The '''Assyrian homeland''' or '''Assyrian Triangle''' refers to the [Ninawa Governorate|Ninawa]]-[[Mosul]] region inhabited traditionally by the [[Assyrian people]].<ref>Minorities in the Middle East: a history of struggle and self-expression By Mordechai Nisan</ref><ref>The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great By Arther Ferrill - Page 70</ref> |
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The Assyrian homeland is the part of [[Roman Syria]] and [[Sassanid]] [[Persian Mesopotamia|Mesopotamia]] that retained a significant Christian population following the [[Islamic_conquest_of_Persia#First_conquest_of_Iraq_.28633.29|Islamic conquest of Iraq]], [[Upper Mesopotamia]] having had an established structure of dioceses by AD 500.<ref>Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I By David Gaunt - p. 9, map p. 10.</ref> |
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The Assyrian homeland or Assyrian Triangle refers to the [Ninawa Governorate|Ninawa]]-Mosul region inhabited traditionally by the Assyrian people.[1][2]