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4 unusual facts about Assyrian people


Khamra Teeka

Khamra Teeka (The old wine) is an album by Assyrian singer Linda George released in 1993.

Lou Agase

Lou Agase (August 2, 1924 – June 26, 2006) was a Gridiron football player and coach of Assyrian ancestry.

Mar Sabor and Mar Proth

Mar Sabor and Mar Proth (825 AD & 849 AD) were two Assyrian monks who built and presided over a number of churches in the Kingdom of Travancore with Syrian liturgy.

Semel District

It has about 200,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds with a significant Assyrian population


Arameans

This process was continued by Ashurnasirpal II, and his son Shalmaneser III, who destroyed many of the small tribes, and gave control of Aramea (modern Syria) and local trade and natural resources to the Assyrians.

Assyrians in the United Kingdom

Assyrians in the United Kingdom include members of the Semitic, Eastern Aramaic speaking Assyrian ethnic group born or residing in the United Kingdom.

Jibrail Kassab

Following the difficult plight of Iraq's Assyrian Christians during the Iraq War, Pope Benedict XVI was compelled to transfer Bishop Kassab to a safer area.

Kamel Hana Gegeo

Gegeo, an Iraqi Christian of Assyrian ethnicity, is said to have introduced Saddam to his second wife, Samira Shahbandar, and arranged trysts between them.

Matran family of Shamizdin

This period often referred to as the ‘Qudshanis era' and is most famous for two things namely; restoring independence from Rome and re-labeling the ‘Chaldean’ identity to the ‘Assyrian’ as it is known today.

Paul Bedjan

Born in Khosrova, Persia, an ethnic Assyrian, he was born into a Chaldean Catholic family, and enrolled as a pupil at the French Lazarist School in Khosrova in 1846.

Son of Maryam

The movie is about a young Persian boy who befriends an Assyrian priest and learns tolerance toward Christians in post-revolution Iran.

Syriac Christianity

The Eastern Rite tradition was historically associated with the Church of the East, and is currently employed by the Middle Eastern churches that descend from it, the Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, (the members of these churches are commonly Eastern Aramaic speaking ethnic Assyrians) as well as by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of India.

William Ishaya

William Ishaya, was born to Assyrian parents Ishaya Odisho and Ester Odisho (Daughter of the late Rev. Odisho Bet-Benyamin of St. Matthew Church in Sarsing, Northern Iraq).


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