Assyrian may refer to:
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Assyrian people
Assyrians (, ) are an ethnic group Indigenous peoples, indigenous to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia. Modern Assyrians Assyrian continuity, share descent directly from the ancient Assyrians, one of the key civilizations of Mesop ...
, an indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
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Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC t ...
, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
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Early Assyrian Period
The Early Assyrian period was the earliest stage of Assyrian history, preceding the Old Assyrian period and covering the history of the city of Assur, and its people and culture, prior to the foundation of Assyria as an independent city-state unde ...
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Old Assyrian Period
The Old Assyrian period was the second stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of the city of Assur from its rise as an independent city-state under Puzur-Ashur I 2025 BC to the foundation of a larger Assyrian territorial state after th ...
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Middle Assyrian Empire
The Middle Assyrian Empire was the third stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of Assyria from the accession of Ashur-uballit I 1363 BC and the rise of Assyria as a territorial kingdom to the death of Ashur-dan II in 912 BC. ...
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Neo-Assyrian Empire
The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew to dominate the ancient Near East and parts of South Caucasus, Nort ...
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Post-imperial Assyria
The post-imperial period was the final stage of ancient Assyrian history, covering the history of the Assyrian heartland from the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC to the final sack and destruction of Assur, Assyria's ancient religious c ...
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Assyrian language (disambiguation) Assyrian language may refer to:
* Ancient Assyrian language, a dialect of the ancient East Semitic Akkadian language
* In modern Assyrian terminology, related to Neo-Aramaic languages:
** Suret language, a modern West Semitic language that belongs ...
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Assyrian Church (disambiguation) Assyrian Church may refer to:
* Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Christian church founded by and composed of ethnic Assyrians entered into communion with Rome
* Assyrian Church of the East, an Eastern Christian church
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SS ''Assyrian'', several cargo ships
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''The Assyrian'' (novel), a novel by Nicholas Guild
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The Assyrian (horse)
The Assyrian was an Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse owned by CS Agnew and trained by J.E. Savill that won the 1882 Melbourne Cup being ridden by C Hutchins, presumably named after the Assyrians of Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a hist ...
, winner of the 1883 Melbourne Cup
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Assyria (disambiguation)
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th cen ...
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Syriac (disambiguation)
Syriac may refer to:
* Suret language, Suret, a Neo-Aramaic language
* Syriac alphabet, a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language
** Syriac (Unicode block)
** Syriac Supplement
* Syriac Christianity, a branch of Eastern Christian ...
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Assyrian homeland
The Assyrian homeland is Assyria ( or ), the homeland of the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed, located in their indigenous Upper Mesopotamia. The territory that forms the Assyrian homeland is, similarly to the rest ...
, a geographic and cultural region in Northern Mesopotamia traditionally inhabited by Assyrian people
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Syriac language
The Syriac language ( ; ), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (), the Mesopotamian language () and Aramaic (), is an Aramaic#Eastern Middle Aramaic, Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is ...
, a dialect of Middle Aramaic that is the minority language of Syrian Christians
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Upper Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia constitutes the Upland and lowland, uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. Since the early Muslim conquests of the mid-7th century, the regio ...
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Church of the East (disambiguation)
Church of the East, also called ''Nestorian Church'', an Eastern Christian denomination formerly spread across Asia, separated since the schism of 1552.
Church of the East may also refer to:
*'' Church of Assyria and Mosul'', a patriarchate with ...
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