The city of Assur was still occupied by Assyrians during the Islamic period until the 14th century when Tamurlane conducted a massacre of indigenous Assyrian Christians.

However, Eastern Aramaic dialects, as well as Akkadian and Mesopotamian Aramaic personal and family names, still survive to this day among Assyrians in the regions of northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and northeast Syria that constituted old Assyria.

Neo-Aramaic is still used by Assyrians and in some villages in the Anti-Lebanon mountains.

Consequently, indeed there is still a small and fragile community of Assyrians in Iraq, however, millions of Assyrian Christians live today in exiled and prosperous communities in the west.

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.

A separate Akkadian-infused Eastern Aramaic is still spoken by the existing Assyrians of Iraq, Iran, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey.

There is some evidence to suggest Ashurism was still practiced around Harran as late as the 17th Century by tiny minorities of Assyrians.

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.

These people exist today as the modern Assyrians who are wholly Eastern Rite Christian but retain a distinct Mesopotamian language, Neo Aramaic ( which descends from the Aramaic first spoken in Mesopotamia in 1200 BCE and still retains hundreds of Akkadian loan words ) and identity and the naming of children with ancient names such as Ashur, Shamash, Semiramis, Lamassu, Ninus, Lilitu / Lilith, Sargon, Hadad etc.

Assyrians to this day still use the names of ancient Mesopotamian gods and rulers as both first and last names ; Ashur, Hadad, Shamash, Lilitu / Lilith, Sennacherib, Sin ( Shinu ), Sargon, Semiramis, Ishtar and Lamassu for example are still common names, and some months in the Assyrian calendar are named after ancient gods such as Tammuz, and all periods are listed as being blessed by ancient gods.

To this day the Assyrians still refer to the Armenians by the name Armani.

As part of the kingdom of Judah, Benjamin survived the destruction of Israel by the Assyrians, but instead was subjected to the Babylonian captivity ; when the captivity ended, the distinction between Benjamin and Judah was lost in favour of a common identity as Israel, though in the biblical book of Esther, Mordecai is referred to as being of the tribe of Benjamin, and as late as the time of Christ some still identified their Benjamite ancestry.

The descendant dialects of this branch of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still retains a number of Akkadian loan words ) still survive as the spoken and written language of the ethnically Mesopotamian Assyrians to this day, and is found mostly in Iraq, Iran, northeast Syria, southeast Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, southern Russia and Azerbaijan, as well as in diaspora communities in the west, particularly the USA, Canada, Australia, Sweden and Great Britain.

Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul, which is still today inhabited by Assyrians.

Assyriology deals with the Assyrians who succeeded the Sumerians and covers much of the region while that language was still in use.

Some nationalists argue that “ the nation was always there, indeed it is part of the natural order, even when it was submerged in the hearts of its members .” In keeping with this philosophy, Al-Quds University states that although “ Palestine was conquered in times past by ancient Egyptians, Hittites, Philistines, Israel, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans, Muslim Arabs, Mamlukes, Ottomans, the British, the Zionists … the population remained constant-and is now still Palestinian .”

King Ahsheri's successor, Ualli, as a vassal of Assyria, took the side of the Assyrians against the Iranic Medes ( Madai ), who were at this point still based to the east along the southwest shore of the Caspian Sea and revolting against Assyrian domination.

The huge wattled shields, adopted by the Achaemenid Persians from the Assyrians ( called spara by the Achaemenids ), still remained in use ; and from behind a row of these, rested upon the ground and forming a sort of loop − holed wall, the Sassanid bowmen shot their weapons with great effect ; nor was it until their store of arrows was exhausted that the Romans, ordinarily, felt themselves upon even terms with their enemy.

Nergal, an idol of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, and Persians, whose name means, " a dunghill cock.

In time, Assur was promoted from being the local deity of Assur to the overlord of the vast Assyrian domain, with worship being conducted in his name throughout the lands of the Assyrians.

Isaiah 8: 1-15 continues the previous chapter: the prophet tells of the birth of another child, his own son named Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( yet another symbolic name ), then predicts that after Ephraim and Syria are destroyed the Assyrians will come like a river in flood to " cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel " ( Isaiah 8: 8 ).

He remained popular under the Assyrians: two kings of Assyria bore the name Tukulti-Ninurta.

Settled since the early Bronze Age, Hatay was once of the Akkadian Empire, then the Amorite Kingdom of Yamhad and Mitannis, then a succession of Hittites, the Neo-Hittite " Hattena " people that later gave the modern province of Hatay its name, then the Assyrians ( except a brief occupation by Urartu ) and Persians.

Aziz is a common name for people ranging from Assyrians to Kurds and Arabs.

The Assyrians used the name of the limmu for that year to designate the year on official documents.

To Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Jews there were male and female demons ( Jewish demons were mostly male, although female examples such as Lilith exist ).

According to a more recent research, the corrected estimates for Van province ( including women and children ) was ; 313, 000 Muslims, 130, 000 Armenians, and 65, 000 others, including Assyrians.

Nabu later became one of the principal gods in Assyria and Assyrians addressed many prayers and inscriptions to Nabu and named children after him.

In Jeremiah this verse is a description of Rachel, the long dead mother of the northern tribes, mourning as her children are taken into captivity by the Assyrians.

) priest of the god Ieuo ( Yahweh ), that Sanchuniathon dedicated his history to Abibalus king of Berytus, and that it was approved by the king and other investigators, the date of this writing being before the Trojan war approaching close to the time of Moses, " when Semiramis was queen of the Assyrians.

Semiramis, queen of the Assyrians

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.

The Assyrians battled the Chaldeans at the river Ulaya and won the day.

Nineveh was an ancient Middle Eastern city, founded by the Assyrians ; now modern day Mosul, Iraq

Anatolia has been inhabited by many peoples throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Hittites, Luwians, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Mitanni, Scythians, Cimmerians, Urartians, Carians, Commagene, Cilicians, Arameans, Kaskians, Mushki, Palaic, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Colchians, Iberians, Georgians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks, and Ottomans.

Anatolia has had many civilizations throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Luwians, Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Urartians, Cimmerians, Carians, Scythians, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Georgians, Circassians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks and Ottomans.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

Unlike the Semitic Akkadians and their descendant Assyrians, whose Anatolian possessions were peripheral to their core lands in Mesopotamia, the Hittites were centred at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia by 2000 BC.

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

The Assyrians had better success than the Egyptians, annexing much Hittite ( and also Hurrian ) territories in these regions.

The Phrygian expansion into south east Anatolia was eventually halted by the Assyrians, who controlled that region.

Hurrian kingdoms, such as Nairi and the powerful state of Urartu arose in north eastern Anatolia from the 10th century BC, before eventually falling to the Assyrians.

The Cimmerians overran Phrygia and the Scythians threatened to do the same to Urartu and Lydia, before both were finally checked by the Assyrians.

Areas of the south east such as Harran and the Hakkari mountains continued to be inhabited by remnants of the Assyrians, but these regions remained under Parthian and then Sassanid Persian rule.

Albanians, Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Bosnians, Arameans, Circassians, Georgians, Greeks, Jews, Hemshin, Laz, Gagauz, Yezidi, Abkhazians and a number of other ethnic groups also live in Anatolia in smaller numbers.

Antisemitism refers specifically to prejudice against Jews alone and in general, despite the fact that there are other speakers of Semitic languages ( e. g. Arabs, Ethiopians, or Assyrians ) and that not all Jews speak a Semitic language.

* 1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3, 000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.

4 ) admits a preference of ' barbarous ' to vernacular names in sacred things, urging a peculiar sanctity in the languages of certain nations, as the Egyptians and Assyrians ; and Origen ( Contra Cels.

Classical civilizations, notably the Assyrians, Persians, Parthians, Indians, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese and Turks fielded large numbers of archers in their armies.

This was to lead to both the Assyrians from Mesopotamia and Arameans from the Levant being dubbed Syrians in Greco-Roman culture.

The Assyrians began to convert to Christianity from Ashurism during the period between the early 1st and 3rd centuries AD.

The Assyrians fought successfully against overwhelming numbers for a time, until their Russian allies left the war and the Armenian line broke.

The Assyrians were prized by the British rulers for their fighting qualities, loyalty, bravery and discipline, and were used to help the British put down insurrections among the Arabs and Kurds.

Many persecutions have befallen the Assyrians since, such as the Simele Massacre, Anfal campaign and Baathist, Kurdish and Islamist persecutions.

In ancient times Assyrians spoke a dialect of the Akkadian language, an eastern branch of the Semitic languages.

In the Neo-Assyrian period the Aramaic language became increasingly common, more so than Akkadian — this was thought to be largely due to the mass deportations undertaken by Assyrian kings, in which large Aramaic-speaking populations, conquered by the Assyrians, were relocated to Assyria and interbred with the Assyrians.