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Abbasids, builders of a new Kurdish, Persian, and , 91f.; civilization, 49 various dialects of, spoken by Abdul Hamid H, and the Hamidiyah Christians with Syriac liturgy, 91-92 Cavalry, 124ff.; and increased Arameans, called Syrians in the lawlessness in eastern Anatolia, Septuagint, 9; history of, 10f.; I 23ff. as enemies of ancient Assyrians, Abgar, King, in the Christian 10-11; defeated by Assyrians, 11, tradition, 35-36; in Armenian aramaized Assyrians, 11-13; Syrian tradition, 35n.lO, 37 Orthodox Christians consider "Abode of Islam", 47 themselves ethnically, 9f., 32n.113 Addai, 35 ArbeIla, 36 Adiabene, early Christi ans in, Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian mostly Jews, 36-37 Mission, and the name Assyrian, 18, Afshar Turks (Azerbayjan), 62, 98-100 211n.12 Armenian language and literature, Agha Patrus, 161ff. distinguish "Syrian" from "Assyrian," Ahl al-Dhimmah, 45ff. 19-20; Asori in, stands for people of Ahl al-Kitiib, 45ff. geographical , 20 Akkadian, displaced by Aramaic Ashitha, 77 dialect of geographical Syria, 11-12, Asori, in Armenian language and 14, 29; deciphered, 15ff. literature, refers to peoples of Alqush, 56-57 geographical Syria, 19-20 Amadiyah, 159 Assemani, 33, on Assyrian America, American, relations with descendance, 23 Persia (19th century), 121-122 , archaeological excavations of, American Dunkards, mission, 33 15-16 American Southern Baptists, mission, "Assyrians" and "Syrians", 19-20, 133 20n.70; terms refer to two different Ancient Church of the East, peoples and geographical areas, and Mar Thoma Darmo, 247ff.; regardless of etymology, 20 and Mar Addai H, 248 Assyrian Church of the East, has Anglo-Russian Convention (1907), elected patriarch, Mar Dinkha IV, divides Persia into three zones of 252; name of the Church since influence, 137 1976, I, 3n.ll; reaches "Common Anfol, 7he, Saddam's campaign against Christological Declaration" with , 215f.; Assyrians also victims, Roman , 253f.; 215-221 "obstacles of the past" still prevent Arabs, 38f.; in before "" with Roman Islam, 38-39; and Islamic Catholic Church, 256-257; officially conquests, 45ff. also known as "Holy Apostolic Aramaic, identified with "Chaldee" Catholic Assyrian Church of the language 7-8; as lingua ftanca of East", 253n.78 Western Asia, 12-15; displaced Assyrian Democratic Movement, 219ff. Akkadian as written and spoken (see Zo'a), language, 11-12; Urmiyah, used as Assyrian National Association of standard literary language, 89f.; America, at the Paris Peace spoken, borrowed from Turkish, Conference, 56-157 286 INDEX

Assyrian Patriotic Party, 220f. (see kept memory of ancient Assyrians Gabba Atranqya Atourqya) alive, 22ff.; 24n.84 Assyrians (ancient), their survival after Bidawid, Mar Raphael I, 221, the fall, 27-29; adopted Aramaic Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic dialect of geographical Syria, Church (see Chaldean Catholic 11-12, 14,29 Church) Assyrians (modern), Assyrian, history Al-Biruni, 2 of the name, 17f.; national Botta, Paul Emile, archaeologist, 15 self-consciousness of, 155f.; Hakkari, Browne, William H., I opt to return to their lands after Buddhism, Vatican Council II on, World War I, 156; nationalist 245n.50 claims, I 56f. ; British attempts to Bush, President George, 217 repatriate, 16Iff.; repatriation fails, 163-164; conscripted as "Levies", Catherine the Great, 107 I 64f.; and the Mosul Question, Catholikos qf the East and his People, 7he, 169-171; and the Lausanne Chaldean, Chaldeans, as name of Conference, 166-168; and the Catholic "Nestorians," 3f.; as Constantinople Conference, 17Iff.; national name of "Nestorians," 5f., Britian exploits, in , 171-173; 67; as descendants of Assyrians, 17f.; and League of Nations, I 75ff.; meaning magicians, 7; name restlessness in Iraq, 189ff.; settled in preferred by Layard and Rassam as northern Iraq, 200; others settled in national name of Nestorians, 17-18; Syria, 99-205 recognized as a religious millet by Assyriologists, on survival of ancient the Ottoman government, 57-58; Assyrians, 27-29 dissociate themselves from name Aturqye (Assyrians), 18-19 "Assyrians", 257 Azerbayjan Democratic Government, 212 , pre-World War I relations with Church of the Badger, 2; on Badr Khan massacres, East, 58; dialogue with Assyrian 80ff. Church of the East, 256-257; Badr Khan, establishes Kurdish political and historical differences confederacy under his own rule, between, and the Assyrian Church 72-73; clashes with Nestorians, 73; of the East, 257, 257n.84 feels threat of Frankish influence Christians, everywhere, after Jews, the among Nestorians, 75ff.; massacres only people who for centuries knew Nestorians, 76-83; role of of the ancient Assyrian empire and missionary Grant in the massacres, its wars, 22ff.; of Persia, between 74-85 two warring empires, 38ff. Baker Sidqi, and the Summayl Christological Controversies, 40-41 massacre, 196-197 (see under Common Christological Baratoff (Russian General), 143 Declaration) Barhebraeus, see Ibn al-'Ibri Church Missionary Society (London), 65 Barsaurna, 42 Church of the East, and Barzani, Mas'ud, 218 "", 42-43; Bashqala, 73 sixteenth-century schism, 55-58; Batum, 113 iso la ted and leaderless after 1930s, Basidi, Shamun, 56-57 246ff.; Mar Shamun's authority Ba'uta d'Ninwqye, See Rogation of the challenged, 247ff.; schism again, Ninevites 247-250; in the United States of Bqyt al-'Ab, 56-57 America, 246 Behistun, trilingual inscription of, Coakley, J.F., 17 deciphered, 15 Common Christological Declaration Bible, The, Septuagint version of, (1994), 255ff. equated Syrians and Arameans, 9; Congress of Berlin, 112