Assyrian homeland

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The Assyrian homeland or Assyria (Syriac: ܐܬܘܪ, romanized: Āṯōr) is the homeland of the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed, located in the Upper Mesopotamia of West Asia. The territory that forms the Assyrian homeland is, similarly to the rest of Mesopotamia, currently divided between present-day Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria. In Iran, the Urmia Plain forms a thin margin of the ancestral Assyrian homeland in the north-west, and the only section of the Assyrian homeland beyond the Mesopotamian region. The majority of Assyrians in Iran currently reside in the capital city, Tehran. The Assyrians are one of several indigenous Mesopotamian groups, claiming descent from ancient Assyria.The ancient Assyrians developed an independent civilisation in the city of Assur on the eastern border of northern Mesopotamia. The ancient Assyrian territory was divided through the centre by the Tigris River, with Mesopotamia on the west and the western margins of the Urmia Plains to...

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