 Assyria
\ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)
1: an ancient empire of
Ashur 2: a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern
Iraq, northwestern Iran,
southeastern Turkey and Syria.)
3:
a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants
irrespective of their religion, race, or gender
4: a democratic
state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and
culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter —
Atour synonym |
Ethnicity,
Religion, Language
»
Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
»
Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
»
Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic |
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Assyrian
\ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)
1: descendants of the
ancient empire of Ashur
2: the Assyrians, although representing but one
single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally
divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with
their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely,
Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic. These formal divisions had their
origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era. No one can coherently understand the
Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that
which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the
western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their
control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of
nationality. 3:
the Assyrians
have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen,
Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo,
ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya,
Syriac, Syrian, Syriani,
Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb |
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