This is an exerpt from the book Assyrian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey and Adjacent Territories, by Anahit Khosroeva. Throughout the history of the world, namely the 20th century, there have been ...
A semitic peoples indigenous to North Iraq; builders of the great Mesopotamian civilizations; ethnically distinct from Arabs and Jews (the other semitic peoples of the region). Assyrians are ...
The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Moreover, they are the descendants of the ancient Assyrians- builders of the earliest civilization.