Assyrian diaspora

The Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac diaspora (Syriac: ܓܠܘܬܐ Galuta) refers to the communities of Assyrian people who live throughout the world outside of their native lands. The still Eastern Aramaic- speaking Assyrians are the modern day descendants of the Ancient Assyrians (see Assyrian continuity), and are known to be one of the few ancient Semitic ethnicities in the Near East who resisted Arabization, Turkification or Islamification during and after the Arab conquest of Iraq. The indigenous Assyrian people's homeland is a geographic area within the borders of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria southeastern Turkey and northwestern fringes of Iran, a region roughly corresponding with what had been Assyria between the 25th century BC and 7th century AD. They are a Semitic Christian people, with most being members of the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Pentecostal Church or Assyrian Evangelical Church.