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( Assyrian people)
Suraye / Suryaye / A?uraye [1] The Assyrians (also known as Syriacs, Syriac Christians, Chaldeans more recently Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people,[17] Suroye/Suryoye[18] and other variants, see Names of Syriac Christians) are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Levant, their homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western Iran, and Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia.[19] Many have migrated to the Caucasus, North America and Europe during the past century. The major sub-ethnic division is between an Eastern group ("Nestorians" and "Chaldeans") and a Western one ("Jacobites"). There are Assyrian diaspora and Iraqi refugee communities in Europe, the former Soviet Union, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. Emigration was triggered by the Assyrian genocide in the wake of the First World War and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the Simele massacre in Iraq (1933) and the Islamic revolution in Iran (1979).[20] The latest event to affect the Assyrian community is the war in Iraq; of the one million or more Iraqis reported by the United Nations to have fled, nearly forty percent (40%) are Assyrian, although Assyrians comprise only three percent of the Iraqi population.[21][22][23]
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