Assyrian

Assyrian

Assyrian may refer to:

*The ancient Assyrian Empire:
**The Neo-Assyrian Empire;
***Pax Assyriaca, the Assyrian peace
*Assyria (Persian province), a province of the Persian Empire
*Assyria (Roman province), a province of the Roman Empire
*Assyrian people, a present-day Middle Eastern ethnic group
**The Assyrian homeland, a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East
*Assyrian genocide
*SS "Assyrian", a British merchant shipIn religious denominations:
*Assyrian Church of the East
*Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod
*Assyrian Evangelical Church
*Assyrian Pentecostal Church
*Syriac Catholic Church
*Syriac Orthodox Church
*Chaldean Catholic ChurchIn languages:
*The Ancient Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language
*Aramaic language:
**Syriac language:
***Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
***Chaldean Neo-AramaicIn orthography:
*Aramaic alphabet
*Hebrew alphabet
*Syriac alphabet
*Cuneiform script

ee also

*Assyria (disambiguation)
*Syriac-Aramean people
*Old Assyrian
*Middle Assyrian
*Names of Syriac Christians


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