Since these groups are relatively obscure in the West, literature on them has sometimes included the Assyrian Church of the East as a part of the Oriental Orthodox Communion, but the Assyrians have maintained theological, cultural, and ecclesiastical independence from all other Christian bodies since 431.

Following the defeat in 612 BC, the site remained largely unoccupied for centuries with only a scattering of Assyrians living amid the ruins until the Sassanian period, although Assyrians continue to live in the surrounding area to this day.

Not only Jerusalem, but the entire world is subject to judgment, including the Philistines, ( 4-7 ) Moabites, Ammonites, ( 8-11 ) Ethiopians, ( 12 ) Assyrians and Ninivites ( 13-15 ).

After this Asuristan-Assyria was also dissolved as a geo-political entity, and the native Aramaic speaking and largely Christian populace gradually underwent a process of Arabisation and Islamification, with only the Assyrians / Chaldo-Assyrians of the north ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) and Mandeans of the south retaining their religions and a distinct Mesopotamian identity and language, which they still do to this day.

The term " Post-Sumerian " is meant to refer to the time when the language was already extinct and only preserved by Babylonians and Assyrians as a liturgical and classical language ( for religious, artistic and scholarly purposes ).

Since no real census has been taken for decades, the election results are the only indicator of the province's ethnic distribution, although it should be noted that many Assyrians and Yazidis claim that ballot papers were denied them, and in addition, many members of ethnic groups voted for mainstream parties, or ethnic parties that were attached to mainstream Arab or Kurdish led parties.

The successive Persian Empires that followed the Medes after their downfall in 550 BC took these already long-standing military tactics and horse-breeding traditions and infused their centuries of experience and veterancy from conflicts against the Greek city-states, Babylonians, Assyrians, Indo-Scythians, and North Arabian tribes with the significant role cavalry played not only in warfare but everyday life to form a military reliant almost entirely upon armored horses for battle.

While the offensive weapons of these prototype cataphracts were identical to those of the Assyrians, they differed in that not only the mount but also the head and flanks of the horse were protected by armor.

The besieged, who included not only Assyrians but also Hellenistic Jews, appealed for help to Lysias, who effectively became the regent of the young king Antiochus V Eupator after the death of Antiochus Epiphanes at the end of 164 BCE during the Parthian campaign.

All of the vanquished leaders save one were sent to Nineveh, only Necho I the native Egyptian Prince of Sais, convinced the Assyrians of his loyalty and was sent back to become the Assyrian puppet Pharaoh of Egypt.

However, the passage over the ridge of hills which shuts in on the south of the great Jezreel Valley was blocked by the Judean army led by Josiah, who may have considered that the Assyrians and Egyptians were weakened by the death of the pharaoh Psamtik I only a year earlier ( 610 BC ), who had been appointed and confirmed by Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal.

" Here, uniquely in the Anfal campaigns, lists of the " disappeared " provided to Human Rights Watch / Middle East by survivors " invariably included only adult and teenage males, with the single exception of Assyrians and Yezidi Kurds ," who were subsidiary targets of the slaughter.

Hezekiah gathered the citizens in the square and encouraged them by reminding them that the Assyrians possessed only " an arm of flesh ", but the Judeans had the protection of Yahweh.

He led the Babylonian populace in revolt against Assyria and King Sennacherib in 689 BC, with the support of Elam and King Humban-nimena ( which was attacked by the Babylonians and the Assyrians only years before ), at the Battle of Halule.

Now it appears ... certain that Yamani was only turned over to the Assyrians a couple of years later ( under Shebitku instead ).

The French diplomatic correspondence shows that the Hamidiye carried out massacres not only of Armenians but also of Assyrians living in Diyarbakir, Hasankeyef, Sivas and other parts of Anatolia.

Despite Assyrians making up only 3 % of Iraq's population, on October 2005, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported of the 700, 000 Iraqis who took refuge in Syria between October 2003 and March 2005, 36 % were " Iraqi Christians.

The Deuteronomic Code is regarded by textual scholars as dating from the reign of Josiah, which postdates the fall of the Kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians ; this is considered to be the reason that only three ( unnamed ) cities of refuge are mentioned in the Deuteronomic Code, with a further three only being added if the Israelite territory was expanded, as by the time of Josiah's reign, the cities east of the Jordan were no longer controlled by the Israelites.

The Assyrians were also innovative in military technology with the use of heavy cavalry, sappers, siege engines etc.

The Assyrians always managed to restore Babylonian loyalty, however, whether through granting of increased privileges, or military force.

The French, who at the time were controlling Syria, had notified the Iraqis that the Assyrians were not armed ; but while the Iraqi soldiers were disarming those whose arms had been returned by the French, shots were fired ( it is not clear if the Assyrians or Iraqi Army opened fire first ) resulting in a military clash, the Iraqi army was defeated and 30 Iraqi soldiers killed.

Under the British mandate, Assyrians were organized into militia groups called " the Assyrian Levies " and were used to put down revolts and support the British military presence in Iraq.

Hoping in the support of Russians, the World War I was seen as the right time to rebel against the Ottoman Empire, which answered fighting the Assyrians as military enemies.

Aside from being a contributing factor in the development of civilization, salt was also used in the military practice of salting the earth by various peoples, beginning with the Assyrians.

The site dates to the 9th century BC, when a military camp was built by the Assyrians.

Amidst all this, however, the Assyrians were one of the most successful military kingdoms.

This means that he should trust God and not seek military help in the Assyrians which Ahaz nevertheless did.

Throughout this entire period both Assyria and Babylonia continued to exist as geo political entities and named regions, and Assyria in particular became a center of a distinctly Mesopotamian Christianity, namely the ancient Eastern Syrian Rite Christianity which was spread all over the near east and as far away as central Asia, India, Mongolia and China by travelling monks and still exists as the religion of the Assyrians to this day in the form of the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church and Ancient Church of the East.

Article 125 of the Iraqi constitution says, " This Constitution shall guarantee the administrative, political, cultural, and educational rights of the various nationalities, such as Turkomen, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and all other constituents, and this shall be regulated by law ".

* Assyrian General Conference, political organization representing Assyrians in Iraq.

In the summer of that year an armed group of 800 Assyrians crossed from Iraq into Syria, where there were many other Assyrians, to " assert what they perceived as their legitimate national rights ", according to Jonathan Eric Lewis, a political analyst.

Instead, Egypt was ruled ( from 664 BC, a full eight years prior to Tanutamun's death ) by the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, client kings established by the Assyrians who successfully brought about Egypt's political independence under their reign.

The party was established on April 12, 1979 to satisfy the political objectives of the Assyrian people in Iraq, in response to the oppressive brutality of the Al-Baath regime and its attempts to forcibly expropriate ethnic Assyrians from their native lands.

Carter, who has advanced the thesis that much of Matthew is a prediction of the destruction of the Roman Empire, sees this verse as political in nature with the conquering Assyrians an allegory for the current Roman domination of the region.

Consisting solely of Article 121, Part Four simply states that the constitution guarantees the administrative, political, cultural, and educational rights of the country's various ethnic groups ( Turkmens, Assyrians, etc.

The Assyrian Patriotic Party ( or Assyrian National Party ) is a political party in Iraq representing ethnic Assyrians that is led by Nimrud Baito.

The Assyrians and Hittites were then left in the field to battle over control over eastern and southern Anatolia and colonial territories in Syria.

Like the Assyrians, the Babylonians had to campaign yearly in order to control their colonies.

Following the collapse of the last Sumerian " Ur-III " dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites, another Semitic people, gradually gained control over most of southern Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms, while the Assyrians reasserted their independence in the north.

However, Nebuchadnezzar failed to extend Babylonian territory further, being defeated by Ashur-resh-ishi I, king of the Assyrians for control of formerly Hittite controlled territories in Aramea ( Syria ).

Cyprus was under the control of the Assyrians at this time but the city-states of the island enjoyed a relative independence as long as they paid their tribute to the Assyrian king.

The French provided arms to groups opposed to Turkish control including Kurdish Hoybûn, Armenian Tashnak organizations, and Assyrians.

This process was continued by Ashurnasirpal II, and his son Shalmaneser III, who destroyed many of the small tribes, and gave control of Aramea ( modern Syria ) and local trade and natural resources to the Assyrians.

Ashur-uballit I overthrew the Mitanni empire in 1365 BC, and the Assyrians benefited from this development by taking control of the eastern portion of the Mitanni Empire, and later also annexing Hittite, Babylonian, Amorite and Hurrian territory.

While the Assyrian Empire was preoccupied with revolts and civil war over control of the throne, Psammetichus threw off his ties to the Assyrians, and formed alliances with Gyges, king of Lydia, and recruited mercenaries from Caria and Greece to resist Assyrian attacks.

When the Assyrians later defeated the Aramaeans, Hazor seemingly returned to Israelite control ; Assyrian records indicate that Joash, king of Israel at the time, had paid tribute to Assyria and Israel had become an Assyrian vassal.