mrzurnaci
Active member
I was reading a wikipedia article on the city of Ameeda (aka Diyarbakir) and I read that the city was called by it's assyrian name (Ameeda) until after the Arabian conquests, it was renamed Diyar Bakr which was the name of the Arabian tribe that came to occupy that region and city.
so my curiosity has sparked this question...
How many Arabians, in terms of numbers, migrated into Syria and Iraq before and after the islamic conquests?
Another reason for this question is that when Timur depopulated Tagreeth (Assyrian Tikrit) Arabs, and by Arabs i mean Arabians, now live in the city. This is especially in the case of Saddam Hussein who's lineage is from the Al-Bu Nasir tribe, which stems from what is now Saudi Arabia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Bu_Nasir
And if this is the case, what is the real number of Iraqis who are actually Mesopotamian descent?
We really need a large scale genealogy test on the middle east.
so my curiosity has sparked this question...
How many Arabians, in terms of numbers, migrated into Syria and Iraq before and after the islamic conquests?
Another reason for this question is that when Timur depopulated Tagreeth (Assyrian Tikrit) Arabs, and by Arabs i mean Arabians, now live in the city. This is especially in the case of Saddam Hussein who's lineage is from the Al-Bu Nasir tribe, which stems from what is now Saudi Arabia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Bu_Nasir
And if this is the case, what is the real number of Iraqis who are actually Mesopotamian descent?
We really need a large scale genealogy test on the middle east.