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2 unusual facts about Al-Jazira province


Al-Jazira province

:The Assyrians immigration in the High Jazira (...) goes on and is supported by the Mandate Power as it facilitates a secret but even more visible tendency: that of the creation of a new autonomous State, in spite of the theoretical discussions on the unity of the mandate.

In 1936-1937 there was some autonomist agitation in the province among Assyrians and Kurds, supported by some Bedouins.



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