Bangkok Blast

[Megaterio Llamas]

There weren't a lot of outside witnesses to thing Luigi but those that were there wrote that a great deal of the slaughter that went on in the area between Harput, Van and Urmia where the Kurds did live at the time was carried out by Kurdish irregulars. They actually carried out a series of massacres of Assyrian Christians beginning in the 1830's coinciding with the arrival of Anglo missionaries and archaeologists in the area; this was just the big one. The final solution, you could say. It's all Kurdish now, of course.

[Luigi]

Sadly its the 4th time it happened to the Assyrians. Arabs, Mongols, Timur's boys, Turks and Kurds. From what I hear ISIS is making grounds in being number 5.

[Som-Pong]

And likely the last, only Assyrians left are going to be in Sodertalje, Sweden.

[Luigi]

Plenty in the Toronto area, although most marry Portuguese and Croatian people and have kids that dont know much of their ancestors.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Sodertalje is about the last compact community they have left. After Operation Iraqi freedom was completed the Nineveh plain in Iraq was all but Kurdified.

Assyryska vs Syrianska soccer matches Are about the only place left you'l hear Aramaic after the wars in Iraq and Syria. Hard to believe the Assyrian triangle was still majority Assyrian (Syrian then) less than 200 years ago.



Shame the Mandean-Sabeans couldn't have been saved.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Plenty in the Toronto area, although most marry Portuguese and Croatian people and have kids that dont know much of their ancestors.

It's actually one of the most fascinating unknown in the west national histories you'll ever discover. And they've left us a two thousand year written history, some of which even survived the massacres.

No mention of Kurds in Syrian Orthodox polymath Gregory Bar Hebraeus of Harput's famous 13th century world history the Chronography.

Bar Hebraeus'
Chronography

Translated from Syriac

by E. A. Wallis Budge

http://rbedrosian.com/BH/bh.html


BY FOOT TO CHINA

Mission of The Church of the East, to 1400

http://www.aina.org/books/bftc/bftc.htm

THE MONKS OF KUBLAl KHAN
EMPEROR OF CHINA

OR

THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF RABBAN SAWMA, ENVOY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE MONGOL KHANS TO THE KINGS OF EUROPE, AND MARKOS WHO AS MAR YAHBH-ALLAHA III BECAME PATRIARCH OF THE NESTORIAN CHURCH IN ASIA

TRANSLATED FROM THE SYRIAC

BY

SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, KT.

M.A., LITT.D. (CAMBRIDGE), M.A., D.LITT. (OXFORD), D.LIT. (DURHAM), F.S.A.

Sometime Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences Lisbon; and Corresponding Member of the Philosophical Society of America

With 16 plates and 6 illustrations in the text

http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm

[Som-Pong]

I really love how threads go all over the place. I have NO understanding for forums that have to keep stuff "on topic", in the same way I have no understanding for teachers who refuse to stray from their lesson plans.

[Luigi]

Those are some great resources FF, thanks! Back in the day I did a big research project on the Nestorian church and another on religion in the Mongol empire. Very fascinating indeed. One day I will learn the Aramaic tongue, and I will read the great texts myself.

[Som-Pong]

http://asiancorrespondent.com/135245/li ... an-border/

[Winnson]

Thailand is the only Asian country that has never been occupied.



I can't believe they're releasing this movie in Hong Kong. Are they showing it in Thailand?