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	Assyrian people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assyrian is what is used today by members of the Nestorian church, whose church has been officially called the Assyrian Church of the East since 1886.
		Many Assyrians currently have an apocalyptic belief in the future of their nation, based on the following passage from the Bible: In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian.
		People who consider themselves as Assyrians are usually followers of one of the aforementioned churches, but not all members of them consider themselves as Assyrians, ethnic and national identities being intertwined with religious ones, a heritage of the millet system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assyrians (2528 words)

	Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Assyrian Holocaust of 1915 is the turning point in the modern history of the Assyrian Christians precisely because it is the single event that led to the dispersal of the surviving community into small, weak, and destitute communities.
		Franso Harriri is an Assyrian from northern Iraq and is the governor of the province of Arbil.
		With Assyrians comprising 15% of the population of North Iraq, 15% of the proceeds ought to be directly allocated to the Assyrian community.
	www.unpo.org /print.php?arg=08&par=741 (10411 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Assyria
		According to the author of the tenth chapter of Genesis, the Assyrians are the descendants of Assur (Asshur) one of the sons of Sem (Shem -- Genesis 10:22).
		Tiglath-pileser was the first Assyrian king to come into contact with the Kingdom of Juda, and also the first Assyrian monarch to begin on a large scale the system of transplanting peoples from one country to another, with the object of breaking down their national spirit, unity, and independence.
		Assyrian art, especially sculpture and architecture, reached during his reign its golden age and its classical perfection, while Assyrian power and supremacy touched the extreme zenith of its height; for with Asshurbanipal's death Assyrian power and glory sank into the deepest gloom, and perished presumably, to rise no more.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02007c.htm (9804 words)

	Assyrian people - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This can be related to the 19th century context with the beginnings of modern archaeology (the modern discovery of Babylonia and Assyria), and of the idea among some missionaries that associating the remnants of these Christian communities with a powerful ancient empire would be useful to instill a religious and national revival.
		Some seven hundred years after the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC to the Medes and Chaldeans, the name "Assyria" was used during the Roman Empire's rule of the area, it was one of the fifty one provinces of the Empire.
		Among linguists, supporters of the term "Assyrian" Edward Odisho The sound system of Modern Assyrian, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz 1988 admit that linguistically the term is misleading, because in linguistics, the name "Assyrian" is reserved for the extinct language of ancient Assyrians, while the modern Aramaic dialects belong to a different branch of Semitic languages.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Chaldeans (2424 words)

	What Happened to the Turkish Assyrians
		The reason of this decision was that the Turkish Government do not pursue the complaints of the Assyrian minority so as not to risk the loyalty to the state of the "Aghas," local chiefs, the village guards and Hizbullah in the South East.
		Bilge draws attention to the fact that the Assyrian population was about 50,000 in the South East in the 1950’s, but this number has by now decreased to 2,000, with the majority in Midyat and its surrounding villages.
		Assyrians had the rights of the majority and not of the minority, but to be Christian inhibited them in benefiting from the rights of majorities.
	www.aina.org /articles/turkish.htm (1973 words)

	History of Assyrians
		And the list goes on, including the first postal system, the first use of iron, the first magnifying glasses, the first libraries, the first plumbing and flush toilets, the first electric batteries, the first guitars, the first aqueducts, the first arch, and on and on.
		Assyrian missionary enterprise, by the end of the twelfth century the Assyrian Church was larger than the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches combined, and it spanned the Asian continent, from Syria to Mongolia, Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines.
		Assyrians have suffered massive genocide, have lost control of their ancestral lands, and are in a struggle for survival.
	www.aina.org /aol/peter/brief.htm (2747 words)

	List of Assyrians: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This article lists famous Assyrians[For more, click on this link].
		Gabriel asaad (in syriac: ‎) (1907, midyat - 1997) was an assyrian composer...
		Munir bashir was born in mosul in northern iraq into a musical family of assyrian extraction....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_assyrians.htm (242 words)

	Updated: Oppression and Murder of the Assyrians in Iraq
		Younan was a resident of the Assyrian town of Baghdeda.
		Three Assyrian girls were slaughtered in the Assyrian village of Bartella near Mosul while returing home from their work at a hospital in Mosul where they worked.
		Assyrians in the Diaspora call upon the Iraqi President, Prime Minister, government agencies, the United Nations and world organizations to interfere and undo the Kurdish oppression, marginalization and trespassing against the Assyrians in north of Iraq.
	www.christiansofiraq.com /update.html (4008 words)

	dTheatre.com : Mel Gibson to direct Jesus movie in old tongues
		The Assyrian language, known to linguists as neo-Aramaic, is a modern evolution of the ancient language familiar to Jews from the Kaddish prayer, the Passover song "Chad Gadya" and the Talmud.
		Assyrians of today belong to three major churches: the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), The Assyrian Orthodox Church ("Jacobite") and the Chaldean Church of Babylon ("Chaldeans", who are Roman catholic uniates).
		The Assyrian Church of the East (hence forth ACE), whose official name is the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, was established in 33 A.D. by the apostles Thomas (Toma in Assyrian), Theodos (Addai in Assyrian), and Bartholomew (Bar Tulmay in Assyrian).
	www.dtheatre.com /read.php?sid=1862 (9429 words)

	Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom leaving the southern kingdom as the only Israelite state, the word Yehudim gradually came to refer to people of the Jewish faith as a whole, rather than those specifically from Judah.
		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 came to be 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 Jewish worship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jew (5411 words)

	Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Recent opinion is that, as early as 650 BCE the Assyrian astronomers seem to have recognized the six months-five months period by which they could isolate eclipse possibilities (Steele, "Eclipse Prediction", 429).
		The Babylonian and Assyrian astronomers knew of the Saros period in relation to lunar eclipses, and had some success in predicting lunar eclipses but, in the sixth century BCE when Thales lived and worked, neither the Saros nor the Exeligmos cycles could be used to predict solar eclipses.
		The earliest reference to the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece is in Plato's Protagoras in which he listed seven names: 'A man's ability to utter such remarks [notable, short and compressed] is to be ascribed to his perfect education.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/thales.htm (9340 words)

	The Assyrians of Iraq
		At its height (730-650 BC), the Assyrian empire controlled the Middle East from the Gulf to Egypt, but it collapsed in 612 BC.
		Today, there are about two million Assyrians living in Iraq, 700,000 in Syria, 400,000 in the USA and about 500,000 in the rest of the world.
		The Assyrians 1170-612 BC The Assyrians were Semitic people in the northern reaches of Mesopotamia.
	www.al-bab.com /arab/background/assyrian.htm (145 words)

	ChristianIraq.com » Christians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His Holiness Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, delivered a speech in Chicago last weekend at the Hanging Gardens Banquet Hall in Chicago to commemorate 29th Anniversary of his Consecration as Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
		The men were bodyguards for Pascale Warda Esho, also an Assyrian and Iraq’s former Minister of Immigration and Refugees, and were on their way to collect Mrs.
		Iraqi Assyrian and Armenian minorities are two of several indigenous Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian groups with long histories in Iraq–histories that, in many cases, predate the advent of Islam in the nation.
	www.christianiraq.com /news/category/christians (3785 words)

	November 18, 2002
		That Assyrians in any Iraq Government where autonomy is declared for any group or should a Federal Government be established in Iraq then the Assyrians must be provided autonomy or given a State accordingly (see map at http://www.zindamagazine.com/graphics/map.jpg).
		Assyrians were slaughtered by the Turks, a mass murder more forgotten than the Turkish genocide of the Assyrians' fellow Christians, the Armenians.
		The Assyrian Aid Society of America (AAS-A) is a 501 (c) (3) dedicated to helping Assyrians in need, preserving Assyrian culture and heritage, building a structure capable of responding to unexpected crises that require immediate mobilization and focusing American and international attention on the needs and humanitarian concerns of the Assyrian people.
	www.zindamagazine.com /html/archives/2002/11.18.02/index.php (9078 words)

	Assyrian civilization - All About Turkey
		The Assyrians rose to power and prosperity in Mesopotamia which today consists mainly of modern Iraq.
		Assyrians played a major role in the foundation of the civilization of mankind.
		After the fall of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires respectively in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., the Assyrians were reduced to a small nation living at the mercy of their overlords in the vastly scattered lands in the Middle Eastern region.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /asur.htm (372 words)

	The Hellenic Genocide: Quotes from historical documents and related Photos
		Millions of children, men and women were tortured and massacred or expelled from their homes only for being Hellenes.
		In the same places and often at the same time, were also tortured and massacred millions of Armenians and Assyrians of all ages.
		The only "sin" of those millions of persons was to live where their ancestors had lived for thousands of years before the Turkish invasions.
	www.hellenicgenocide.org /quotes (976 words)

	Ten Bible prophecies being fulfilled today
		At about that time, the Assyrians invaded the northern part of the land of Israel and had scattered many of the people.
		He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk.
		His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
	www.konig.org /page1.htm (2467 words)

	THE NESTORIAN PAGES
		Over the past several years, I have become fascinated by the story of the Church of the East.
		This ancient church, called the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East in full, is often referred to as the Nestorian Church, although this is not the term that the church uses to describe itself and in many ways it is an inaccurate label.
		Lists of Dynasties and Rulers Relevant to the History of the Church of the East
	www.oxuscom.com /nestpage.htm (444 words)

	About Nimrod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He built many cities, most notibly Nimrud in Iraq, known as Calah in ancient times, the military capital of the Assyrians.
		(For a list of some of his other cities look in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.) And so Nimrod was known as a mighty hunter and Nimrod is also associated with hunters.
		Take for instance the RAF Nimrod plane, named so because it "hunts" the target.
	www.doleos.demon.co.uk /nimrod.htm (780 words)

	Iraq Christian Assyrians flee to Syria
		Another Iraqi Christian in Syria, Jacqueline Isho, said that when Christians complain to the authorities in Iraq, they are "always ignored." "Some police sympathize with, or support, those Islamists and gangs," Isho said.
		Scores of Iraqi Christian families move to Syria and Jordan every day, according toEmanuel Khoshaba, a representative of the Iraqi Assyrian Democratic Movement in Syria.
		Khoshaba said there are now 10,000 Iraqi Christians in Syria, and 90 per cent of them arrived after the Iraqi war began in March last year.
	www.christiansofiraq.com /escape.html (509 words)

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		Unless a list becomes censored (an undesirable prospect, and one which
		People who aren't on the list can mail to it, which has
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