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• Nabonidus
  Meanwhile, the Persian [[Achaemenid Empire]] to the east, led by [[Cyrus the Great]], had been gaining strength. King Cyrus had beco ...se histories from times of change and dissolving order in the ancient Near East'' (Winona Lake IN: Eisenbrauns 2007), 137–66.</ref>
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• List of Chaldean settlements
  ...Orthodox Church]], [[Syriac Catholic Church]] and [[Ancient Church of the East]]. Most are in northern [[Iraq]], northwestern [[Iran]], southeastern [[Tur ...Chaldeans threatened by extremists – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East|work=Al-Monitor|accessdate=18 February 2015}}</ref>
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• Hormuzd Rassam
  ...n Rassam]] was from Mosul and was archdeacon in the Chaldean Church of the East; his mother Theresa was a daughter of [[Ishaak Halabee]] of [[Aleppo, Syria ...ry of Noah, caused much debate at the time about the Biblical narrative of ancient history.
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• Chaldean people
  ...Chaldeans threatened by extremists – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East|work=Al-Monitor|accessdate=18 February 2015}}</ref>}} ...ames of Syriac Christians]]), are an [[ethnic group]] whose origins lie in ancient [[Mesopotamia]]. They speak, read, and write distinct dialects of Chaldean
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• Chaldean Christians
  ...[[Chaldean Catholic Church]]</ref>, originally called ''The Church of the East'', which was that part of the original universal church (Catholicos) until ...st [[Iran]] and southeast [[Turkey]], (a region roughly corresponding with ancient [[Mesopotamia]]) [[Chaldean | Chaldean people]] communities are found in th
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• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
  ...sul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul''. Cambridge University Press, London.</ref> spoken throughout a larg ...ated number of speakers just below 1,500,000, spread throughout the Middle East and the Chaldean diaspora. More than 90% of these speak either the Chaldean
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• Chaldean diaspora
  ...haldeans]] who share a common language of Chaldean [[Eastern Aramaic]] and ancient [[Mesopotamia]] in-[[ Chaldean]] ancestry who migrated outside of their ori ...thodox Church]], [[Chaldean Catholic Church]], and [[Ancient Church of the East]].
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• Chaldean cuisine
  ...estivals – the first [[cookbook]]s in the world.<ref name="Salloum" /> [[Ancient Iraq]], or ''[[Mesopotamia]]'', was home to a sophisticated and highly adva ...stone fruits.<ref name=OCF/> ''[[Babylonia|Al-Irāq]]'' (Iraq proper, the ancient Babylonia) grows [[rice]] and [[barley]], [[Citrus|citrus fruits]], and is
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• Chaldean Babylonian Empire
  |region = Middle East ...nian ruling period ended with the reign of [[Nabonidus]] in 539 BC. To the east, the Persians had been growing in strength, and eventually [[Cyrus the Grea
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• Chaldean Catholic Church
  ...|Chaldean church in Mesopotamia Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran|Church of the East in India|Chaldean Syrian Church}} ...tle]], [[Addai]] and [[Saint Mari|Mari]]; emerged from the [[Church of the East]] in the 3rd Century
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• List of kings of Babylon
  The following is a '''list of the kings of [[Babylonia]]''' (ancient [[Sumer|southern]]-[[Akkadian Empire|central]] [[Iraq]]), compiled from the ...ery specific ancient list of supposed Babylonian kings recorded in several ancient locations, and related to its predecessor, the [[Sumerian King List]]. As i
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• Nabonidus/en
  ...se histories from times of change and dissolving order in the ancient Near East'' (Winona Lake IN: Eisenbrauns 2007), 137-66.</ref> ...r]].<ref>A. Kuhrt, "'Ex oriente lux': How we may widen our perspectives on ancient history", in R. Rollinger, A. Luther and J. Wiesehöfer (eds.), ''Getrennte
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• Third Dynasty of Ur
  ...007 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Malden |series=Blackwell History of the Ancient World |isbn=978-1-4051-4911-2 }} {{Ancient Syria and Mesopotamia}}
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• Third Dynasty of Ur/en
  ...007 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Malden |series=Blackwell History of the Ancient World |isbn=978-1-4051-4911-2 }} {{Ancient Syria and Mesopotamia}}
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• Third Dynasty of Ur/fr
  ...007 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Malden |series=Blackwell History of the Ancient World |isbn=978-1-4051-4911-2 }} {{Ancient Syria and Mesopotamia}}
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• Chaldophobia
  ...[[Chaldean Catholic Church]]</ref>, originally called ''The Church of the East'', which was that part of the original universal church (Catholicos) until ...st [[Iran]] and southeast [[Turkey]], (a region roughly corresponding with ancient [[Mesopotamia]]) [[Chaldean | Chaldean people]] communities are found in th
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• Akitu
  ...k-Latn|rêš-šattim}}'', "head of the year") was a [[spring festival]] in ancient [[Mesopotamia]].The Chaldean Babylonian Akitu festival was celebrated origi ...coming from [[Nippur]], [[Uruk]], [[Kish (Sumer)|Kish]], and Eridu (cities ancient Babylonia). The Gods accompanying Nabu would be represented by statues whic
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• Easter Egg
  ...ection.|date=22 Jan 2002|accessdate =7 April 2012}}</ref> In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of ...of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago.<ref>Treasures from Roy
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• Troisième dynastie d'Ur
  ...wski, ''The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom'', Winona Lake, 2011.</ref>. ...), ''The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the ancient Near East'', Chicago, 1987, {{p.}}19-41</ref>.
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• Hakkâri
  ...akkari. Stelae with this type of relief are not common in the ancient Near East however there are many close parallels between these and those produced by ...n affected by the massacres were adherents of the [[Assyrian Church of the East]] (often dubbed [[Nestorianism|Nestorian]]), who have originally inhabited
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• Diyarbakır
  ...ty that later generations of Armenians would call Dikranagerd was actually ancient Amid or Amida (now Diarbekir or Diyarbakir), a great walled city with seven ...then again by the [[Chaldeans]]. From 189 BCE to 384 CE, the region to the east and south of present Diyarbakır remained under the rule of the kingdom of
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• Urmia
  ...]]. [[Lake Urmia]], one of the world's largest [[salt lake]]s, lies to the east of the city and the mountainous [[Turkey|Turkish]] border area lies to the ...google.com/books?id=0KOSUrLPC6IC&pg=PA152&dq=majority+of+the+population+of+East+Azarbaijan+and+a+majority+of+West+Azarbaijan.#v=onepage&q=majority%20of%20t
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• Amadiya
  The history of this city goes back at least to ancient [[Chaldea]], and was an [[Chaldean people|Chaldean]] city known as [[Amedi] ...er his birth.<ref>Bailey, Betty Jane. Who are the Christians in the Middle East? Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (May 2003)</ref>
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• Assur
  {{Infobox ancient site The ancient city was occupied from the mid-3rd millennium BC (Circa 2600–2500 BC) to
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• Gundeshapur
  ...ntified with extensive ruins south of Shahabad, a village 14&nbsp;km south-east of [[Dezful]], to the road for Shush, in the present-day province of [[Khuz .... Khusraw I gave refuge to various Greek [[philosophers]], [[Church of the East|Nestorian]] [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] fleeing religious persecution by
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• Tikrit
  ===Ancient times=== ...rHCI1I8C&pg=PA48 With Arrow, Sword, and Spear: A History of Warfare in the Ancient World].'' Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. Accessed 18 December 2010.</ref
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• Alqosh
  Alqush traces its history back into the ancient [[Chaldean and Assyrian empires]] and perhaps even further. The earliest me ...vided into four quarters: Sainna quarter to the west, Qasha quarter to the east, O’do quarter to the north, and Khatetha quarter to the south.
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• Bakhdida
  ...sp;km west of [[Erbil]] amid agricultural lands, close to the ruins of the ancient Chaldean cities [[Nimrud]] and [[Nineveh]]. It is connected to the main cit ...inly belonging to the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]] and the [[Church of the East]].
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• Nabopolassar
  ...op, Marc 2007">Van De Mieroop, Marc, 2007, ''A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC'', Blackwell Publishing</ref>
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• Sumer
  ...{Cite web|url=http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/writing.html|title=Ancient Mesopotamia. Teaching materials|publisher=Oriental Institute in collaborati ...0of%20the%20originating%20Samarran%20culture%22&f=false | title = The Near East: Archaeology in the "Cradle of Civilization" | isbn = 978-0-415-04742-5 | a
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• Mesopotamia
  ...f the [[Parthian Empire]]. Mesopotamia became a battleground between the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] and Parthians, with parts of Mesopotamia coming under ephemer ...Turkey]].<ref name=fosterpolingerfoster>{{citation |title=Civilizations of ancient Iraq |last1=Foster |first1=Benjamin R. |last2=Polinger Foster |first2=Karen
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• Babylonia
  {{about|the ancient (pre-539 BC) empires|the region called Chaldea or Babylonia by Jewish sourc '''Chaldea or Babylonia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|b|æ|b|ə|ˈ|l|oʊ|n|i|ə}}) is an ancient [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]-speaking [[Semitic]] [[state (polity)|state]
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• Nabonidus/fr
  ...se histories from times of change and dissolving order in the ancient Near East'' (Winona Lake IN: Eisenbrauns 2007), 137-66.</ref> ...r]].<ref>A. Kuhrt, "'Ex oriente lux': How we may widen our perspectives on ancient history", in R. Rollinger, A. Luther and J. Wiesehöfer (eds.), ''Getrennte
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• Karamlish
  ...a]], northern [[Mesopotamia]] located less than {{convert|18|mi|km}} south east of [[Mosul]]. ...cs]]). Historically, the population was mostly part of the [[Church of the East]]; however, many returned to Catholicism from the late 18th and early 19th
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• Chaldeans of Michigan
  ...ns were called [[Chaldean Nestorian]] but belong to Chaldean Church of the East until 1553 AD when Chaldeans rejoined the universal church and entered comm ...st [[Iran]] and southeast [[Turkey]], (a region roughly corresponding with ancient [[Mesopotamia]]) [[Chaldean | Chaldean people]] communities are found in th
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• Conn of the Hundred Battles
  ...with the border lying between [[Galway]] in the west and [[Dublin]] in the east. ...along with the kings of Ulster and Leinster. He led his army to Mag Leana, near [[Tullamore]], County Offaly. Conn retreated to Connacht, gathered his forc
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• Sharafiya
  ...in the village: a Chaldean Catholic church and an [[Ancient Church of the East]] named Mar Gewargis (St. George). There are other Chaldean villages to the east and south of Sharafiya: [[Tel Isqof]] which is an Chaldean village, is 9 Ki
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• Hammurabi
  ...urabi holds his hands over his mouth as a sign of prayer<ref>{{cite |title=Ancient Iraq |first=Georges |last=Roux |author-link=Georges Roux |chapter=The Time ...sed, he was still revered as a model ruler, and many kings across the Near East claimed him as an ancestor. Hammurabi was rediscovered by archaeologists in
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• Chaldean Catholic Church/en
  ...|Chaldean church in Mesopotamia Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran|Church of the East in India|Chaldean Syrian Church}} ...tle]], [[Addai]] and [[Saint Mari|Mari]]; emerged from the [[Church of the East]] in the 3rd Century
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• Chaldean Catholic Church/fr
  ...|Chaldean church in Mesopotamia Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran|Church of the East in India|Chaldean Syrian Church}} ...tle]], [[Addai]] and [[Saint Mari|Mari]]; emerged from the [[Church of the East]] in the 3rd Century
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• List of Chaldean Catholic Patriarchs of Babylon
  ...ers of the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]] and one of the [[Patriarchs of the east]] of the [[Catholic Church]] was originally established by Saint Thomas in ...tury under Simon Peter in 1 Peter 5:13 out of which grew the Church of the East. It was Catholicos Timothy I Al-Baghdadi incorporated the numerically domin
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• Babylonian calendar
  {{Portal|Ancient Near East}} ...John M., ed., "Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East", Oxford: Oxbow, 2007.
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• Joseph VI Audo
  ...the Mama patriarchal family supported by most of the [[Church of the East|East Syrian Christians]], in 1808 recognized as own patriarch Mar [[Augustine Hi ...w monastery of Notre Dame des Semences in a safer and more convenient site near [[Alqosh]]. The new monastery quickly replaced Rabban Hormizd as the princi
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• Joseph IV (Chaldean Patriarch)
  ...i''' was the fourth incumbent of the ''Josephite'' line of [[Church of the East]], a patriarchate in [[Full Communion]] with the [[pope]] mainly active in ...rst=Wilmshurst |title=The Ecclesiastical Organization of the Church of the East, 1318-1913 |publisher=Peeters Publishers |year=2000 |isbn=978-90-429-0876-5
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• Patriarchs of the Church of the East
  ...East]], the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]], and the [[Ancient Church of the East]]. == Fictionalisation of the early history of the Church of the East ==
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• Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa
  ...ilhelm|last1=Baum|first2=Dietmar W.|last2=Winkler |title=The Church of the East: A Concise History|year=2003|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-0-415-29770-7 ...ited in a single patriarchate and the [[Episcopal see]] was located in the ancient Chaldean city of [[Alqosh]]. In the 15th century the Patriarch Mar [[Shimun
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• Akkadian language
  |fam3=[[East Semitic languages|East Semitic]] ...mpire|Akkad]] (central [[Mesopotamia]]); [[lingua franca]] of the [[Middle East]] and [[Egypt]] in the late [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] and early [[Iron Age]]s.
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• Nebuchadnezzar II
  ...ps://www.ancient.eu/Nebuchadnezzar_II/ |title=Nebuchadnezzar II |publisher=ancient.eu |accessdate=December 22, 2017}}</ref> ...axares]], ruler of the [[Medes]] and [[Persians]], led an army against the ancient Assyrians and Egyptians, who were then occupying Syria, and in the ensuing
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• Louis Cheikho
  ...ean men. Both groups followed a similar syllabus. There, he learned both ancient and modern European and Semitic languages. ...n for the priesthood. He was ordained priest by the Chaldean Church of the East on 8 September 1891. He then spent one year in [[Austria]] and another year
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• Battle of Carchemish
  *End of Egyptian intervention in the [[Near East]]. |combatant1=[[Late Period of ancient Egypt|Egypt]] <br /> Remnants of the army of the former [[Neo-Assyrian Empi
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• The Untold Story of Native Iraqis
  ...aq’s history, but to reach new frontiers by exploring and examining that ancient history through a panoramic view. Another well-known Iraqi historian, Dr. G ...d political dynamics, not to mention the cultural atmosphere of the Middle East that was and still is influenced by the achievements of the cradle of civil
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• Chaldeans and self-determination between the past and the present
  ...es another direction without shame and shame. The Assyrians want to revive ancient Assyria under the pretext that the Assyrian empire was established there. A ...and I categorically reject the Syriac term. The change of dialects between East and West among the Chaldeans and Syriacs is a matter that needs a deep stud
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• Chaldean martyrs
  ...d widely spread in the Church. In the East his name is invoked in the most ancient liturgies; while in the west several countries have chosen him as their pat
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• Chaldean identity by Bishop Mar Sarhad Jammo
  ...tity, which was handed down to them from their fathers, the inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia. Behold, a description of the sight of the believers, harvested ...ources in their workplaces without personal contact with the people of the East, their reality and their conditions. Tourists, on the other hand, write wha
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