Assyrian

Assyrian is a descriptor referring to things related to Assur and the ancient civilization of Assyria. In modern times it may refer to the Iraqi Christian group traditionally known as Nestorians.

Ancient

• Assyria, covering all the below in summary
• The Bronze Age Sumero-Akkadian city-state of Assur
• The Old Assyrian Empire, uniting northern and southern Mesopotamia after the fall of Sumer and Akkad
• the Late Bronze Age Middle Assyrian Empire formed after Assyria split with the older Babylonia
• the Neo-Assyrian Empire of the Iron Age, which saw the height of Assyrian civilization and its demise

Modern

• Assyrian people a modern Christian and Aramaic-speaking ethnoreligious group with roots in the Assyrian homeland, an indigenous minority of Upper Mesopotamia
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic a dialect of Neo-Aramaic spoken by the Assyrian people, occasionally erroneously called the "Assyrian language"
• Syriac script, an Aramaic script occasionally given the misnomer "Assyrian alphabet/script"
• Assyrian Church of the East, originally the Church of the East

Other

• Timeline of the Assyrian Empire
• SS Assyrian, the name of at least two cargo ships
• The Assyrian (novel), a 1987 novel by Nicholas Guild

See also

• Assyria (disambiguation)
• Upper Mesopotamia