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	Assyrian people - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Assyrians trace their heritage to an ancient race of the same name, one of the few major factions which appeared after the collapse of the Akkadian Empire; the world's first Semitic empire created under Sargon I.
		Assyrians were one of the first nations to adopt Christianity as their state religion almost two thousand years ago, and traditionally belong to the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Catholic Church or the Syriac Orthodox Church.
		In Iran, the once thriving Assyrian community of around 200,000 is diminished at the close of the 20th century to a mere 5,000 while the total population in all of Iran hovers at around 15,000 to 20,000.
	www.voyager.in /Assyrian_people (3127 words)

	Assyrian Information Medium Exchange - History Page
		Assyrians claim to be the direct descendants of the ancient Assyrians mentioned in Genesis 2:14, who are known in history as early as 2000 B.C. According to Fred Tamimi, Turlock Assyrian scholar, "No nation, ancient or modern, can trace its antiquity farther into the past than that of Assyria.
		An example of the cohesiveness of the Assyrians is in the respect and affection given one by another: a younger person calls an older one uncle or aunt or teacher; a person of the same age or younger, brother or sister.
		Assyrians are participating in almost every kind of endeavor; if they have the capability to accomplish, they are not denied the opportunity to do so because of their ethnic origin.
	www.edessa.com /history/turlock.htm (5997 words)

	Chaldeans or Catholic Assyrians
		The Nestorian Assyrians who followed Rome and became Catholics were given this title by the Vatican to distinguish them from the Nestorian Assyrians or members of the Church of the East.
		The Assyrians live mainly in the major cities and in the rural areas of northeastern Iraq, where they tend to be professionals and businessmen or independent farmers.
		“…Assyrian nationalists regard the establishment of the Chaldean Church as an attempt to divide the Assyrian Church of the East and the Assyrian nation.
	www.nineveh.com /Chaldeans%20or%20Catholic%20Assyrians.html (5840 words)

	Jew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hence, the Israelites (who were later largely destroyed by the Assyrians) were those of the northern Kingdom and the Jews (who survived) were those of the southern kingdom.
		The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees.
		The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser V in the 8th century BC and spread all Over the Assyrian empire, where they were assimilated into other cultures and become known as the Ten Lost Tribes.
	jew.iqnaut.net (4155 words)

	The Roman Catholic Church Role in Promoting the Chaldean identity for the Catholic Assyrians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		After the death of Patriarch Mar Elia, Matran Hannan Hormuzd through help from the Roman Catholic Church became the patriarch of the Church of the East but it was not until July 5, 1830 that he was recognized by Rome as the Patriarch of the Chaldeans.
		The last patriarch of the Church of the East in the plain of Nineveh Yohannan Hormuzd was declared the patriarch of the Chaldeans in 1830.
		The decision by the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Mor Aprim Barsoum to redefine his Church and its people as Aramean after the Semail massacres, and perhaps the recent attempts by the current Patriarch and some clergies to describe the ethnicity of their parishioners as Arab are parts and parcels of the same political game.
	www.christiansofiraq.com /nationchurchFeb186.html (4048 words)

	Judaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		God sent the patriarch Jacob and his children to Egypt; after they eventually became enslaved, God sent Moses to redeem the Israelites from slavery.
		The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser V in the 8th century BCE and spread all over the Assyrian empire, where they were assimilated into other cultures and become known as the Ten Lost Tribes.
		The Kingdom of Judah continued as an independent state until it was conquered by a Babylonian army in the early 6th century BCE, destroying the First Temple that was at the centre of ancient Jewish worship.
	judaism.iqnaut.net (7047 words)

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