Assyrian

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Assyrian may refer to:

• The ancient Assyrian Empire:
  • The Neo-Assyrian Empire;
    • Pax Assyriaca, the Assyrian peace
• Assyria (Persian province), a province of the Persian Empire
• Assyria (Roman province), a province of the Roman Empire
• Assyrian people, a present-day Middle Eastern ethnic group
  • The Assyrian homeland, a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East
• Assyrian genocide

In religious denominations:

• Assyrian Church of the East
• Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod
• Assyrian Evangelical Church
• Assyrian Pentecostal Church
• Syriac Catholic Church
• Syriac Orthodox Church
• Chaldean Catholic Church

In languages:

• The Ancient Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language
• Aramaic language:
  • Syriac language:
    • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    • Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

In orthography:

• Aramaic alphabet
• Hebrew alphabet
• Syriac alphabet
• Cuneiform script

[edit] See also

• Assyria (disambiguation)
• Old Assyrian
• Middle Assyrian
• Names of Syriac Christians