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 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 —
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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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Aramaic
\ar-é-'máik\
n (1998)
1: a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of
the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.
2:
has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac,
Swadaya and Turoyo. |
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