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Assyrian is a descriptor referring to things related to Assur and the ancient civilization of Assyria. In modern times it may refer to the Iraqi Christian group traditionally known as Nestorians.

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Ancient

  • Assyria, covering all the below in summary
  • The Bronze Age Sumero-Akkadian city-state of Assur
  • The Old Assyrian Empire, uniting northern and southern Mesopotamia after the fall of Sumer and Akkad
  • the Late Bronze Age Middle Assyrian Empire formed after Assyria split with the older Babylonia
  • the Neo-Assyrian Empire of the Iron Age, which saw the height of Assyrian civilization and its demise

    • Modern

  • Assyrian people, a modern Christian and Aramaic-speaking ethnoreligious group with roots in the Assyrian homeland, an indigenous minority of Upper Mesopotamia
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, a language of Neo-Aramaic spoken by the Assyrian people, also called the "Assyrian language"
  • Syriac script, an Aramaic script occasionally given the misnomer "Assyrian alphabet/script"
  • Assyrian Church of the East, originally the Church of the East

    • Other

  • Timeline of the Assyrian Empire
  • SS Assyrian, the name of at least two cargo ships
  • The Assyrian (novel), a 1987 novel by Nicholas Guild

    • References

    Assyrian Wikipedia
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