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Assyrian Population By Country
This is a list of Assyrian populations by country according to official and estimated numbers. Due to a lack of official data in many countries, estimates may vary. See also *Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora The Assyrian diaspora (Syriac: ܓܠܘܬܐ, ''Galuta'', "exile") refers to ethnic Assyrians living in communities outside their ancestral homeland. The Eastern Aramaic-speaking Assyrians claim descent from the ancient Assyrians and are one of the ... References {{Assyrian topics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In France
French Assyrians ( syr, ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܕܦܪܲܢܓܝܵܐ), (french: Assyriens) alternatively (french: Assyriens) are French citizens of Assyrian ancestry. There are around 16,000 most of whom are concentrated in the Paris metropolitan area. History The community has a history in France dating back to the First World War, with most arriving during the 1920s in Marseille as a result of the Assyrian genocide. The bulk of the Assyrian presence dates back to the early 20th century, when some Assyrians, fleeing the Assyrian genocide, found refuge in France. Others arrived from rural south-eastern Turkey as a result of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in the 1960s and 70s. Their numbers swelled after the Iraq War in 2003 by those arriving from Iraqi cities. Population There are 30,000 Assyrians living in France. The first Assyrians arrived in Marseille France in the 1920's as refugees from the genocide of the Assyrians by Turks during World War One, in which 750,000 Assyrians (75%) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In Finland
The Assyrians in Finland comprises migrants of Assyrian ancestry and their descendants born in Finland. Demographics In 2001, there were only 115 Assyrians in Finland. Within six years, the number tripled. The majority of them living in Oulu, while other smaller communities are seen in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, and as well in Turku and Jyväskylä. They are mostly refugees from Iraq and Iran; this is in contrast to the Assyrian population in neighboring Sweden, where the majority are from Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. The population is split religiously between Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic members. Chaldean Catholics attend a Catholic church in Oulu where the services are conducted by Italian priests in the Finnish language. Church of the East members attend their services in Lutheran churches. History Assyrians in Finland began arriving noticeably for the first time in 1991. In April 1994, the community in Oulu founded the social club "Assyrian Society of Finlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In The Netherlands
The Assyrians in the Netherlands are Dutch citizens of Assyrian descent and in the Netherlands mostly known as Arameeërs (Arameans/Syriacs) due to their membership to the Syriac Orthodox Church. They mainly live in the east of the country, in the province of Overijssel, in such cities as Enschede, Hengelo, Rijssen, Almelo and Borne. The main reason that the Assyrians are concentrated there is because it is an industrial area which lies at the Germany–Netherlands border, where a large German Assyrian population resides. Many Assyrians in the Netherlands have relatives in Germany. History The first Assyrians came to the Netherlands in the 1970s as a result of fights between the PKK and the Turkish army. Most of them were from the province of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, where the aforementioned conflict took place. In the 1980s, Assyrians from Syria, with almost all of them being from the originally Assyrian city of Qamishli ( Syriac: ܒܬ ܙܠܝܢ Bet Zalin), began to emigra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In New Zealand
Assyrians in New Zealand are New Zealanders of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have New Zealand citizenship. The Assyrian community in New Zealand began in the 1990s when refugees from Iraq and Iran settled in the country. The majority of Assyrian New Zealanders live in Auckland, in the suburbs of Manurewa and Papatoetoe. They have an Assyrian church of the East and Chaldean Catholic Church. Wellington has a sizeable Assyrian population consisting of several hundred people. Smaller communities can be found in Miramar, Newtown, Strathmore, and in the Island Bay area. History In 2018, the Assyrian community of New Zealand unveiled a monument at Makara Cemetery in Wellington to immortalize the souls of the Assyrian martyrs in the WW1 Assyrian genocide. The Holy Cross Primary School in Wellington began teaching about Assyrian New Year as a subject through the ''Intensive Oral Language Program'', where students learn about Assyrian culture, language and heritage. Religion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In Georgia
Assyrians in Georgia number 3,299, and most arrived in the Southern Caucasus in early 20th century when their ancestors fled present-day Turkey and Iran during the Assyrian genocide. History Historically, the first Assyrians arrived in Georgia in the 6th century A.D. when 13 Assyrian monks (historically known by the Georgians as the 13 saint Assyrian fathers) from the city of Edessa came to Georgia and established the Shio-Mgvime Monastery. Scholars have linked their contribution to the Christianization of Georgia, with Saint Nino leading the way of converts from paganism. Assyrians came in contact with Georgians once again in the 1760s. Assyrians under Ottoman rule were looking for some kind of protection from religious and ethnic persecution. Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Mar Avraam requested of Georgian king Erekle II protection for Assyrians and the Yezidis of present-day Turkey. In April 1770, Georgian troops, under Russian command, headed towards the city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In Armenia
Assyrians in Armenia (, ''Āsōrīnēr'') make up the country's third largest ethnic minority, after Yazidis and Russians. According to the 2011 census, there are 2,769 Assyrians living in Armenia, and Armenia is home to some of the last surviving Assyrian communities in the Caucasus. There were 6,000 Assyrians in Armenia before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but because of Armenia's struggling economy during the 1990s, the population has been cut by half, as many have emigrated. History Modern history Today's Assyrian population in Armenia are mostly descendants of settlers who came starting in the early nineteenth century during the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828), when thousands of refugees fled their homeland in the areas around Urmia in Persia. In the beginning of the 20th century, many came from what is today Southeastern Turkey, specifically the Hakkari region, where it was common to have Assyrians and Armenians living in the same villages. Assyrians, like th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrian Mexicans
Assyrian Mexicans are Mexicans of Assyrian descent or Assyrian citizens who have Mexican citizenship. Most of the Assyrian immigrants who arrived in the country were Chaldean Catholic, as they fled from religious persecution and ethnic persecution in their historical Assyrian homeland in modern-day Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. History The immigration of Assyrian-Chaldeans from northern Iraq to North America started at the beginning of the 20th century. Chaldo-Assyrians, and Armenians all came to the New World looking for job opportunities and for a better life. Driven out by the harsh treatment of the conquering Turks, most followed family members, joining them in established businesses. Jajjo Hajji is widely considered the first pioneer in Mexico. Hajji ended up in Veracruz, Mexico after leaving Adana, Turkey in 1901. Several other Chaldo-Assyrians migrated from Tel-Keppe to Mexico and established communities in Salina Cruz, Saint Louis, Tecuala, Estabeca, Montreux, Mérid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In Israel
Assyrians in Israel and Palestine are Assyrians living in either the State of Israel or the State of Palestine, totaling approximately 4,500 individuals as of 2022. History The Assyrian presence in the Israel mainly originated from those who fled the Assyrian genocide from Tur Abdin in 1915. Many found refuge in what was known as the "Syriac Quarter" in Bethlehem and the since destroyed "Syriac Quarter" in the Old City of Jerusalem, squeezed between the Armenian Quarter and the Jewish Quarter at the Old City’s southern end. After the Israel-Arab War of 1967, the hundreds of Syriacs who inhabited the Old City of Jerusalem had their homes taken over by Israeli authorities and were scheduled to be handed over to Jewish settlers or else demolished to make way for housing exclusively built for Jews. It is estimated that 65% of Syriacs who inhabited the Holy Land at the beginning of 1967 left the city in the following years. The Assyrians in the Holy Land today mostly live in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In Austria
Assyrians in Austria (german: Assyrer in Österreich) are Austrians of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have Austrian citizenship. History The Assyrian community in Austria began in 1974 when Assyrians from Diyarbakir, Midyat and Mardin in the Assyrian homeland immigrated to Vienna. In 2009, an Assyrian clubhouse was opened in Vienna. The clubhouse organizes community events such as parties and conferences. Religion Most Assyrians in Austria belong to the Syriac Orthodox Church, though a minority belong to the Assyrian Church of the East. The Patriarchal Vicar responsible for the Syriac Orthodox community in Austria resides in the Swiss town of Arth. In 1987, the Syriac Orthodox church was recognized as a religious community by the government of Austria. Notable people *Fadi Merza References {{Europe in topic, Assyrians in Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Assyrians
British Assyrians are British people of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have British citizenship. They are indigenous to present-day northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwestern Iran and Syria. They speak Syriac and are predominantly Christian. Concentrations of Assyrians are found in Greenford and in Hanwell, both towns within the London Borough of Ealing. Assyrians in the UK and other western countries mostly migrated from Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. Migration was largely triggered by long standing ethnic and religious persecution in their homeland. Religion, ethnicity and culture Assyrians today still Aramaic as a mother tongue. They descend from the ancient Arameans. They are the indigenous population of their ancestral Assyrian homeland in what is today northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria and northwestern Iran. Assyrian people are predominantly Christian; they fall into a number of Eastern Rite Churches whose services are conducted in cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrians In Greece
Assyrians in Greece ( gr, Ασσύριοι στην Ελλάδα) include migrants of Assyrian descent living in Greece. The number of Assyrians in Greece is estimated at around 6,000 people. History and distribution The modern history of the Assyrians in Greece dates back to the 1920s when a number of Assyrians who were settled in Greece formed the ''Assyrian Federation of Greece'' to represent their community. This organisation was officially recognised by the Greek state in 1934. More Assyrian refugees later arrived from Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria due to instability in those countries and using Greece as an immigration bridge to western and northern European countries, like Germany and Sweden, where it is possible to get easier access to asylum and social benefits. Currently there are more than 6,000 Assyrians in Greece, around 1,000 of them are naturalised while most of the rest live in limbo with no permit. The ethnic Assyrians are mostly concentrated in suburbs of Athens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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