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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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