Mikhael K. Pius
Mikhael K. Pius (19 March 1927 – 9 January 2011) was an author and Assyrian historian, principally on the Assyrian community on the old British Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Habbaniya, where the author had lived. Biography Born Minashi Khammo Pius on 19 March 1927, in Khatun Camp, Baghdad. He was forced to change his name to Mikhael after the 17 July Revolution in 1968 that ushered in Baathist rule because authorities believed his birth name Minashi sounded ‘too Jewish’. He was son of Khammo Pius and Soriya Kakko of Mavana, Targawer, Persia, children of the tens of thousands of Christian Assyrians who agreed to fight on the side of the Allies. They had been forced by Ottoman forces to abandon their homelands in modern-day Turkey and Iran and flee to the safety of refugee camps in Mesopotamia during World War I. Pius spent his childhood in Khatun Camp, Baghdad, and in the Maharatha Lines on the RAF Station Hinaidi, where he had his early education at Raabi Spania Shimsho ...
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Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. In 762 CE, Baghdad was chosen as the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, and became its most notable major development project. Within a short time, the city evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center of the Muslim world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions, including the House of Wisdom, as well as a multiethnic and multi-religious environment, garnered it a worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning". Baghdad was the largest city in the world for much of the Abbasid era during the Islamic Golden Age, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many c ...
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Civil Cantonment
Civil may refer to: *Civic virtue, or civility *Civil action, or lawsuit * Civil affairs *Civil and political rights *Civil disobedience *Civil engineering *Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism *Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces *Civil law (other), multiple meanings *Civil liberties *Civil religion *Civil service * Civil society *Civil war *Civil (surname) Civil is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Civil (1929–1989), British horn player *François Civil (born 1989), French actor * Gabrielle Civil, American performance artist *Karen Civil (born 1984), American social media an ...