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The following is a '''list of [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] clans or tribes''' of northern [[Iraq]], northeastern [[Syria]], southeastern [[Turkey]], and northwestern [[Iran]].
The following is a '''list of [[Assyrian people|Assyrian]] tribes''' indigenous to the regions of northern [[Iraq]], northeastern [[Syria]], southeastern [[Turkey]], and northwestern [[Iran]].


== Turkey ==
== Turkey ==

Revision as of 20:10, 26 May 2020

The following is a list of Assyrian tribes indigenous to the regions of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.

Turkey

Prior to their exile from the region during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, the Assyrian communities in the Hakkari region of southeastern Turkey were comprised of two groups: the independent tribes, or ashirets, and the vassal communities, or rayyats.[1][2] Upon exile and dispersion from the region, Assyrians of both ashiret tribes and rayyat communities have kept their tribal and community identifications intact.[3]

Ashiret Tribes

Rayyat Communities

  • Ashita
  • Bohtan
  • Chal
  • Derrenaye
    • Eiel
    • Mar b'Ishu
  • Gawar
  • Ishtazin (Lesser Jilu)
  • Lewun
  • Nochiya (Shemsdin)
  • Qodchanis
  • Taimar
  • Tal
  • Walto


Tribes

See also

References

  1. ^ Wilmshurst, David (2000). The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. University of Virginia: Peeters. p. 285. ISBN 9782877235037.
  2. ^ Donabed, Sargon George (2015). Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians of the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9781474412124.
  3. ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42.
  4. ^ Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon / Austen Henry Layard Pages 383-384
  5. ^ http://www.xmind.net/m/7QbE/

Further reading