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Assyrian



 
  Assyrian may refer to:

in antiquity:
  • ancient Assyria
    Assyria

    Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history....
    • the Old Assyrian
      Old Assyrian

      Old Assyrian refers to the Old Assyrian period of the Ancient Near East, ca. 20th to 16th centuries BC *the Old Assyrian Empire, see Assyrian Empire...
       period (Middle Bronze Age)
    • the Middle Assyrian
      Middle Assyrian

      Middle Assyrian refers to the Middle Assyrian period of the Ancient Near East, ca. 16th to 10th centuries BC *the Middle Assyrian Empire, see Assyrian Empire...
       period (Late Bronze Age)
    • the Neo-Assyrian period (Early Iron Age)
  • Assyria (Persian province)
    Assyria (Persian province)

    Assyria, as a Persian province, may refer to:*Achaemenid Assyria*Asuristan ...
    , a province of the Achaemenid Empire
  • Assyria (Roman province)
    Assyria (Roman province)

    Assyria or Assyria Provincia was one of three Roman provinces created by the Roman emperor Trajan in 116 C.E. following a successful military campaign against Parthia, in present-day Iraq....
    , a short-lived province of the Roman Empire
  • Asuristan
    Asuristan

    Asuristan was a province of the Sassanid Empire . The territory was taken during the fall of the Parthian Empire. The Sassanians renamed Babylon, to Asuristan....
    , a province of the Sassanid Empire
    Sassanid Empire

    The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name of the last pre-Islamic Iranian empire. It was one of the two main powers in Western Asia for a period of more than 400 years....
  • The Old Assyrian, Middle Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian stages of the Akkadian language
    Akkadian language

    Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
    , the written language of the Assyrian Empire from the 20th to 7th centuries BC.


contemporarily:
  • Assyrian people
    Assyrian people

    The Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their Assyrian/Syriac homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western Iran, and Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia....
    , a present-day Middle Eastern ethnic group
  • the East Syrian Rite
    East Syrian Rite

    The East Syrian Rite is also known as the Assyro-Chaldean Rite, Assyrian Rite, Chaldean Rite or Persian Rite although it originated in Osroene....
    • Assyrian Church of the East
      Assyrian Church of the East

      The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East , currently presided over by Mar Dinkha IV, is a Christian particular church and one of the earliest to separate itself from communion with the Catholic Church ....
    • Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod
    • Ancient Church of the East
      Ancient Church of the East

      The Ancient Church of the East separated from the Assyrian Church of the East, after Mar Shimun XXIII, the patriarch of Assyrian Church of the East made reforms which were not supported....
    • Assyrian Evangelical Church
      Assyrian Evangelical Church

      The Assyrian Evangelical Church is a Presbyterianism denomination in the Middle East. The Church has congregations in Iraq, Iran, Australia, and the United States....
    • Assyrian Pentecostal Church
      Assyrian Pentecostal Church

      The Assyrian Pentecostal Church began in villages across the Urmia region in Iran, and spread to the Assyrian People living in the adjacent cities....
    • Syriac Catholic Church
      Syriac Catholic Church

      The Syriac Catholic Church, or Syrian Catholic Church, is a Christian church in the Levant having practices and rites in common with the Syriac Orthodox Church....
    • Syriac Orthodox Church
      Syriac Orthodox Church

      The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephaly Oriental Orthodox church based in the Middle East, with members spread throughout the world. It schism with Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism over the Council of Chalcedon, which the Syriac Orthodox Church rejects....
    • Chaldean Catholic Church
      Chaldean Catholic Church

      The Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon is an Eastern Catholic Churches Particular_church#Autonomous_particular_Churches_or_Rites of the Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Bishop of Rome and the rest of the Catholic Church....


In languages:
  • The Ancient Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language
    Akkadian language

    Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
    • Aramaic language
      Aramaic language

      Aramaic is a Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship....
      :
    • Syriac language
      Syriac language

      Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries, the classical language of Edessa, Mesopotamia, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature....
      :
    • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
      Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

      Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a modern Eastern Aramaic language language. Assyrian Neo Aramaic is neither to be confused with Akkadian language, nor the Old Aramaic dialect that was adopted as a lingua franca in Assyria in the 8th century BC....
    • Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
      Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

      Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is a Northeastern Neo-Aramaic language. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is spoken on the Plain of Mosul in northern Iraq, as well as by the Chaldean communities worldwide....


other:
  • SS Assyrian
    SS Assyrian

    The SS Assyrian was a steam merchant ship, originally German-built, that sailed under the British flag during the Second World War....
    , a British merchant ship

See also

  • Assyria (disambiguation)
    Assyria (disambiguation)

    Assyria may refer to:*Assyria, an ancient empire in Mesopotamia*Assyria , province of the Persian Empire*Assyria , province of the Roman Empire...
  • Names of Syriac Christians
    Names of Syriac Christians

    The various communities of Syriac Christians and speakers of Neo-Aramaic advocate different terms for ethnic self-designation:*"Assyrians", after the ancient Assyrian Empire, advocated by followers of the Assyrian Church of the East & the Ancient Church of the East , and other Aramaic-speaking Christians from the other Syriac Churches, e.g.,...
  • Upper Mesopotamia