{"id":2544,"date":"2024-01-27T22:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assyrianaustralian.org.au\/?page_id=2544"},"modified":"2024-02-01T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:37:40","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/assyrianaustralian.org.au\/home\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Assyrian History"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2544\" class=\"elementor elementor-2544\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17b946c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"17b946c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2efe0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b2efe0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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However, Assyrians continued to rule over Assyria under succeeding empires such as the Achaemenid province of Athura, the ancient kingdom of Adiabene, as well as the province of Asoristan under the Sasanian Empire which lasted until 637 AD.\u00a0<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>In the late 19th century, Assyrians experienced massacres at the hands of Kurds and Turks, most notably the 1843 and 1846 Massacres of Hakkari, the 1895 Massacre of Diyarbekir and the Hamidian massacres. In 1914, the Ottoman Empire orchestrated genocide against the Assyrian, Armenian and Greek population of Anatolia with the support of Kurdish tribes. This event is known as \u2018Seyfo\u2019 or the \u2018Assyrian Genocide\u2019 in contemporary sources.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Following the advent of Pan-Arab nationalism in Iraq and Syria, Kemalist policies in Turkey and the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Assyrians have immigrated en masse to the Western world. 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