| Описание: | As Austen Henry Layard, the British Empire' s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century, wrote, the Assyrians survived the Arab, Mongol, and Kurdish conquests in the mountains of Hakkari, where they fought to maintain their independence in the nineteenth century. As Professor Abraham Yohannan of Columbia University wrote in 1916, the Assyrians "are a sturdy people who, like the Kurds about them, have maintained a state of semi-independence and have been more or less able to defend themselves against attacks. " The traditional Assyrian homeland extends from the Tigris river into northeastern Persia. The Assyrian War of Independence was a temporarily successful war of independence waged by the Assyrian Patriarch and the chiefs of the Assyrian tribes between 1843 and 1933, with later assistance from the British Empire, against the Ottoman Empire, the Soviet Union, the Persian Empire, the Kingdom of Iraq, the French Mandate of Syria, and the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! |