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There isn't a group, now, calling themselves " ASSYRIANS ". If there was such a group, then I would agree with you.

What do you mean no one there calls themselves Assyrians? Surely you've heard of the Assyrian Christians?

http://www.assyrianchristians.com/

This is the "Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East" pejoratively called "Nestorian".

This is the address of their official website:

http://www.cired.org/

There is also a version of this group that is in union with the Roman Catholic Church who go by the name Chaldean. They both speak Syraic. I'd encourage you to follow the Assyrian links portion of the webpage.

One last thought ... do you have Goode's World Atlas? If so, turn to the map in the European section showing the languages of Europe and the Middle East. IIRC, Assyrian is listed and is shown in northern Iraq, southern Turkey, and northeast Syria.

Look at the cached pages here also (the actual pages seem to be down right now):

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Assyrians

What we don't know, is if those who belong to the Assyrian Chritian groups are actually descendents of the original Asseryians, or mostly just peoples from anywhere, who belong to that group. Some may; however,unlike the several DNA tests on Jews, from almost all over the world,there is little proof.

Thanks for the links; interesting.

No, sorry, my Atlas is from National Geographic and my globe just has countries and water.

After the Versaille Treaty, the ME was cut up so, that people who thought of themselves as one thing ( other than Muslim, as that's what they think of first and nationhood last; if ever )often wound up belonging to someplace else. Even before that, Asseryians had been dispersed.