Islamic State militants have abducted as many as 90 Assyrian Christians, including women and children, after overrunning several small villages in northeast Syria. They are the descendants of Hakkari (Turkey) Assyrians.
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Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) [London] : Royal Geographical Society, [191-] | "Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910"| "Railways inserted November, 1917" | "G.S.G.S. No. 2901"
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Nestorians and Assyrians in 1910 (detail)
"...Hakkari was the homeland of the Assyrian tribes. These mountaineers were Nestorian Christians.
The Assyrian mountaineers lived in villages on the slopes above the Zab river and in settlements well-hidden in side valleys. As tribal or ashiret people ruled by their own local chieftains, the maliks, they were subdivided into large clans that occupied their own part of the territory. The Tyari tribe was the most important one, with almost half of the Assyrian population. Other tribes were known as Tkhuma, Baz, Diz and Jelu.
The leader of the Assyrian mountaineers was their patriarch Mar Shimun, whose title and authority had become hereditary within one family. He had its residence in Qodshanes, a Nestorian village on an isolated plateau, deep in the heart of the Hakkari mountains.
In those days, till the beginning of the 20th century, Ottoman Turkish rule in Hakkari was limited to formal jurisdiction - collecting tribute from the Assyrian mountain villages was the privillege of patriarch Mar Shimun. On the other hand the Christian Assyrians were surrounded by Muslim neighbours - Kurdish tribes - with whom the Assyrians lived to some extent in good harmony, till some local feud led once more to an armed conflict..." Source: Shlama.ba
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