Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Assyrians are almost exclusively Christian, [52] with most adhering to the East and West Syriac liturgical rites of Christianity. [53] [54] Both rites use Classical Syriac as their liturgical language. The Assyrians are known to be among some of the earliest converts to Christianity, along with Jews, Arameans, Armenians, Greeks, and Nabataeans.
For ancient Assyrians, see Category:Ancient Assyrians. The following is a list of notable ethnic Assyrians . It includes persons who are from (or whose ancestry is from) the Mesopotamian Neo-Aramaic speaking populations originating in Iraq , north western Iran , north eastern Syria and south eastern Turkey .
The Church was previously known as the Assyrian Orthodox Church in America and Israel-Palestine, which can be seen in the name of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Paramus, New Jersey. [ 26 ] Chaldean refers to ethnic Assyrians who are (traditionally) Eastern Catholic , having split from the Assyrian Church in Upper Mesopotamia between the 17th and ...
The killing spree that continued among 63 Assyrian villages in the Dohuk and Nineveh districts led to the deaths of an estimated 3,000 Assyrians. [2] [3] August 7 became known as Martyrs Day (ܝܘܡܐ ܕܣܗܕ̈ܐ, Yawma d-Sahdhe) or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre as it was declared by the ...
In the Old Assyrian period, when Assyria was merely a city-state centered on the city of Assur, the state was typically referred to as ālu Aššur ("city of Ashur"). From the time of its rise as a territorial state in the 14th century BC and onward, Assyria was referred to in official documents as māt Aššur ("land of Ashur"), marking its shift to being a regional polity.
Assyrian Christian David Jindo was one of many murdered Christian politicians. Other prominent Assyrian leaders who were killed by Kurdish nationalists include Patriarch Mar Shimun, Franso Hariri, Margaret George (one of the first female Peshmerga) and Francis Shabo. Many of these figures were killed "in spite of their attempts to engage with ...
The Assyrian-inhabited towns and villages on the Nineveh Plain form a concentration of those belonging to Syriac Christian traditions, and since this area is the ancient home of the Assyrian empire through which the Assyrian people trace their cultural heritage, the Nineveh Plain is the area on which an effort to form an autonomous Assyrian ...
Assyrians celebrate religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas, as well as feasts of saints venerated in their respective churches. All Assyrians celebrate Assyrian New Year, known as Ha b'Nison or Kha b'Nisan, on the 1st of April each year to celebrate the turn of the new year in the ancient Assyrian calendar. Assyrian New Year ...