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The following is a list of Assyrian tribes indigenous to the regions of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.
Turkey[edit]
Hakkari Region[edit]
Prior to their exile from the region during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, the Assyrian communities in the Hakkari region of southeastern Turkey were comprised of two groups: the independent tribes, or ashirets, and the vassal communities, or rayyats.[1][2] Upon exile and dispersion from the region, Assyrians of both ashiret tribes and rayyat communities have kept their tribal and community identifications intact.[3]
Ashiret Tribes
Rayyat Communities
- Ashita
- Bohtan
- Chal
- Derrenaye
- Iyil
- Mar b'Ishu
- Gawar
- Ishtazin (Lesser Jilu)
- Lewun
- Nochiya (Shemsdin)
- Qodchanis
- Taimar
- Tal
- Walto
Tribes[edit]
- Albaq Tribe
- Alqosh Tribe
- Barwar Tribe
- Baz tribe
- Botan tribe
- Chal Tribe
- Diz Tribe
- Bash-Kalah Tribe[4] (practices Judaism)
- Gawar Tribe
- Halim Tribe
- Jilu Tribe
- Kasran Tribe
- Kakov Tribe
- Mar b'Ishu Tribe
- Nochiya Tribe
- Qodchanis Tribe
- Taimar Tribe
- Tkhuma Tribe
- Tyari Tribe (Lower)
- Tyari Tribe (Upper)
- Urmia Tribe
- Walto Tribe
- Tur Abdin
- Qalu Tribe
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Wilmshurst, David (2000). The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. University of Virginia: Peeters. p. 285. ISBN 9782877235037.
- ^ Donabed, Sargon George (2015). Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians of the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9781474412124.
- ^ Fernandez, Alberto M. (1998). "Dawn at Tell Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River" (PDF). Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies. 12 (1): 41, 42.
- ^ Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon / Austen Henry Layard Pages 383-384
- ^ http://www.xmind.net/m/7QbE/
Further reading[edit]
- Chabot, Jean-Baptiste (1902). Synodicon orientale ou recueil de synodes nestoriens (PDF). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.
