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==Death toll==
[[File:ChaldeanGenocideVictims.jpg|thumb|right|Bodies of Christians who perished during the Chaldean Genocide]]
Scholars have summarized events as follows: specific massacres included 25,000 Chaldeans in Midyat, 21,000 in Jezira-ibn-Omar, 7,000 in Nisibis, 7,000 in Urfa, 7,000 in the Qudshanis region, 6,000 in Mardin, 5,000 in Diyarbekir, 4,000 in Adana, 4,000 in Brahimie, and 3,500 in Harput.<ref name="Anahit"/><ref name="Travis">Travis, Hannibal. "[http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/yv544142p5rnx055/?p=91e7dbe895ec4cbf9eef0ad842fef76a&pi=6 'Native Christians Massacred': The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians During World War I]." ''Genocide Studies and Prevention'', Vol. 1, No. 3, December 2006, pp. 327–371. Retrieved 2010-02-02.</ref><ref>Gaunt. ''Massacres, Resistance, Protectors'', pp. 76–77, 164, 181–96, 226–30, 264–67.</ref><ref>{{de icon}} Gorgis, Amill "Der Völkermord an den Syro-Aramäern," in ''Verfolgung, Vertreibung und Vernichtung der Christen im Osmanischen Reich 20''. Ed. Tessa Hoffman. London and Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2004.</ref> In its December 4, 1922, memorandum, the Assyro-Chaldean National Council stated that the total death toll was unknown. It estimated that about 275,000 "Assyro-Chaldeans" died between 1914 and 1918.<ref name="Yacoub">{{fr icon}} Yacoub, Joseph. ''La question assyro-chaldéenne, les Puissances européennes et la SDN (1908–1938)'', 4 vol., thèse Lyon, 1985, p. 156.</ref> The population of the Chaldeans of the Ottoman Empire and Persia was about 600,000 before the genocide, and was reduced by 275,000, with very few survivors in 1930s Turkey or Iran.<ref name="Travis2"/><ref>Gaunt, ''Massacres, Resistance, Protectors'', pp. 21–28, 300–3, 406, 435.</ref> Contemporary newspapers reported death tolls of 200,000 to 250,000.<ref name=Travis/> Representatives from the [[Anglican Church]] in the region claimed that about half of the Assyrian Chaldean population had perished.<ref name=intro/>
The memorandum of the Chaldean Archbishopric of Syria ([[Damascus]]-[[Homs]]) to the 1920 peace conference, places the death toll at 90,313 people, with 345 villages burned and 156 churches destroyed. The archbishop demanded 250,000 pounds sterling of reparations to compensate for the destruction of the churches. The figures of the archbishopric places the death toll in Harput at 3,500, in [[Midyat]] at 25,830, in Diyarbekir and surroundings at 5,679, in Jezireh at 7,510, in [[Nusaybin]] at 7,000, in Mardin at 5,815, in [[Bitlis]] at 850, in [[Urfa]] at 340, and tens of thousands at other areas. The archbishopric states that the Ottoman government undertook massacres of Chaldean civilians with "no revolutionary tendencies" in the provinces of Diyarbekir, Urfa, Van, Harput and Bitlis.<ref>{{cite book|last1=de Courtois|first1=Sébastien|title=The Forgotten Genocide: Eastern Christians, the Last Arameans|publisher=Gorgias Press|isbn=9781593330774|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=whDcogCNZs4C&pg=PA237&dq=assyrian+massacre+urfa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_HHuVOCQF4KaygOS9oHwBA&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=assyrian%20massacre%20urfa&f=false|accessdate=26 February 2015}}</ref>
