To: Fred Nerks
How does the history of Assyrians then mesh with that of the Kurds? Seems (to my uneducated eye) to be pretty much the same territory?
216 posted on
02/22/2007 10:01:40 PM PST by
Ramius
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To: Ramius
How does the history of Assyrians then mesh with that of the Kurds? Seems (to my uneducated eye) to be pretty much the same territory?
Not exactly. The folks considered Assyrians in the article quoted above, would have been the successors of the hellenized Seleucid Kingdom and subsequently the Christian Syrian Romans who had their principle city at Antioch. The Kurds inhabited part of the area then known as Greater Armenia or Upper Mesopotamia near Lake Van.
I'm sure someone will correct me if my geography is off.
218 posted on
02/22/2007 10:22:13 PM PST by
Antoninus
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To: Ramius
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/announce/KSF.html
The Kurdish people compose one of the ancient nations of the Middle East. Kurdistan, the land of the Kurds, is spread among several modern states: northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and small parts of Armenia.
219 posted on
02/22/2007 10:27:08 PM PST by
Fred Nerks
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To: Ramius
225 posted on
02/22/2007 10:42:42 PM PST by
Fred Nerks
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