Asyrian people
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,000,000 – 4,000,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Traditional areas of Assyrian settlement: | Numbers can vary |
 Iraq
|
300,000-600,000 |
 Syria
|
300,000-400,000 |
 Turkey
|
65,000 |
 Iran
|
20,000-50,000 |
| Diaspora: | Numbers can vary |
 United States |
320,000-400,000 |
 Sweden
|
150,000+ |
 Germany |
70,000-100,000 |
 Lebanon
|
52,000-200,000 |
 Australia
|
46,217 |
 Jordan
|
44,000-60,000 |
 Canada
|
32,000 |
 Netherlands
|
20,000 |
 France
|
16,000 |
 Belgium
|
15,000 |
 Russia
|
15,000 |
 Denmark
|
10,000 |
 Brazil
|
10,000 |
 Switzerland
|
10,000 |
 Greece
|
6,000 |
 Georgia
|
3,299 |
 Ukraine
|
3,143 |
 Italy
|
3,000 |
 Armenia
|
2,769 |
 Mexico
|
2,000 |
 New Zealand
|
1,497 |
 Azerbaijan
|
1,500 |
 Israel
|
1,000 |
 Kazakhstan
|
350 |
 Finland
|
300 |
| Languages | |
|
Neo-Aramaic (Assyrian, Chaldean, Turoyo) |
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| Religion | |
| Mainly Christianity (majority: Syriac Christianity; minority: Protestantism) |
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Assyrian people (Syriac: ܐܫܘܪܝܐ), or Syriacs (see terms for Syriac Christians), are an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East. Some of them self-identify as Arameans, or as Chaldeans. They speak East Aramaic languages as well as the dominant languages in their countries of residence. The Assyrians are typically Syriac Christians who claim descent from Assyria, one of the oldest civilizations in the world, dating back to 2500 BC in ancient Mesopotamia.
The areas that form the Assyrian homeland are parts of present-day northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and, more recently, northeastern Syria. The majority have migrated to other regions of the world, including North America, the Levant, Australia, Europe, Russia and the Caucasus during the past century. Emigration was triggered by events such as the Massacres of Diyarbakır, the Assyrian Genocide (concurrent with the Armenian & Greek Genocide) during World War I by the Ottoman Empire and allied Kurdish tribes, the Simele Massacre in Iraq in 1933, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Arab Nationalist Ba'athist policies in Iraq and Syria, the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and its takeover of most of the Nineveh plains.
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