Assyrians of Hakkari

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Rumtaya

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I have always asked myself when the first Assyrians came or were settled in the area of todays SE Turkeys province Hakkari. Is there someone of you guys who has a knowledge about that?

The two main points I heard or read (a litle) about it, stated that there were Assyrians:

1. who came directly there after the fall of the Assyrian Empire, espacing the massacres which were taken out by the invaders or
2. Assyrians who espaced the barbarism of Timurlame who sought to destroy everything around the 14th centry.

Probably a mix of bouth, that Assyrians have been there around 612 BC and some more Assyrians came there again around 1300 AD?

Any Ideas, if so could you probably provide some sources to read about it?


 
Rumtaya said:
Hey, yeah I know this site, but its not alot of information and the translation isnt that good. I need a source which goes more in to detail, probably stating also where and how many assyrians could be found throwout todays iraq before the era of this sick human Timurlame.

anyway thank you
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It will be very difficult to find that information from Syriac sources themselves ... Arab sources might be better, but still it would be extremely difficult to access them. I (like you) have just read once that we were a majority in mesopotamia before Tamurlane's attacks.
 
just because there are nestorian churches there does not mean that Assyrians lived there. Lets not forget that Jews were the first Christians in Mesopotamia and they were the ones who converted us. There are also Nestorian churches in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and in China ... but Assyrians did not really live there. Now im almost certain that 'Assyrians' did in fact live in Hakkari before Tamurlane, but we cannot compare it the the volumes of Assyrians living there after his persecutions.

A better study would be how many and where churches were present before Tamurlane and how many were built after. If we see a drastic rise of churches/monasteries that mean there was a large push into Hakkari, and if we see churches and monasteries being built away from each other that also would mean that many different communities had sprung up away from each other.
 
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