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Assyrian

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Assyrian may refer to:

  • The ancient Assyrian Empire:
    • The Neo-Assyrian Empire;
      • Pax Assyriaca, the Assyrian peace
  • Assyria (Persian province), a province of the Persian Empire
  • Assyria (Roman province), a province of the Roman Empire
  • Assyrian people, a present-day Middle Eastern ethnic group
    • The Assyrian homeland, a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East
  • Assyrian genocide

In religious denominations:

  • Assyrian Church of the East
  • Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod
  • Assyrian Evangelical Church
  • Assyrian Pentecostal Church
  • Syriac Catholic Church
  • Syriac Orthodox Church
  • Chaldean Catholic Church

In languages:

  • The Ancient Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language
  • Aramaic language:
    • Syriac language:
      • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
      • Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

In orthography:

  • Aramaic alphabet
  • Hebrew alphabet
  • Syriac alphabet
  • Cuneiform script

See also

  • Assyria (disambiguation)
  • Syriac-Aramean people
  • Old Assyrian
  • Middle Assyrian
  • Names of Syriac Christians



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