Assyrians: From Bedr Khan to Saddam Hussein
Subtitle: Driving into Extinction the Last Aramaic Speakers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: July 20, 2006
Place of publication: United States of America
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781425712990
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Assyrians; Civilization; Iraq
Table of contents: title: Book Description (inside front jacket); title: Throughout the Christian Era, the Assyrians have faced an immense tragedy through persecution, oppression, and massacres. The Assyrian tragedy in Mesopotamia continued intermittently during the Sassanid Persians (A.D. 226 – 637), Seljuk Turks invasion of the eleventh century, Mongols invasion in 1258, Tamerlane’s destruction that began in 1394, the Saffavid Persians in early sixteenth century and during the rule of the Ottoman Turks since the middle of the sixteenth century. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Turks and Kurds committed numerous massacres against the Assyrian Christians in their secluded mountains of northern Mesopotamia and in Tur Abdin region in modern southeastern Turkey.; title: As the Ottoman Empire entered WWI, it declared jihad (holy war) against its Christian subjects. Backed by Kurds, the Turkish army invaded northwestern Persia (Iran) and committed further atrocities against the Assyrian refugees who fled the Ottoman territories and against Assyrians of Persia as well. The jihad transformed into an ethnic genocide against the Assyrians that was perpetrated by the Turkish state and Kurdish warlords.; label: Background and Introduction
pagenum: 11; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 19
title: The Massacres of the Nineteenth Century - A Prelude to Genocide; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 47
title: The Destruction of the Assyrians and their Homeland; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 94
title: A Change in the Course of the Assyrian's Modern History; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 117
title: The Assyrians in the Midst of International Treaties and the League of Nations; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 155
title: The Path to the 1933 Simmel Massacre; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 187
title: After the Massacre - Between Iraq and Syria; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 214
title: The Assyrians and the Final Exodus; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 280
title: The Kurds and Northern Iraq; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 308
title: Common and Notable Assyrians Affected by the Ongoing Genocide; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 354
title: Final Thoughts; title: 361
label: Bibliography; title: 373
label: Index; title: 379
label: Appendix