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(December 2011)| Assyrian homeland refers to a geographic and
cultural region inhabited traditionally by the Assyrian people;
who call it Assyria (Syriac: ܐܬܘܪ). It is largely coterminous
with the Kurdish homeland, including parts of what is now
northeast Syria, northern Iraq, northwestern Iran and
southeastern Turkey. The area of Iraq with the greatest
concentration of Assurians is located in the Ninawa-Mosul region
in Northern Iraq where the biblical Assyrian capital of Nineveh
was located. This area is known as the "Assyrian Triangle." The
Assyrian homeland mirrors the boundaries of ancient Assyria
proper, and the later Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman and
Sassanid provinces of Assyria (Athura/Assuristan) that retained
a significant indigenous, Mesopotamian Aramaic speaking
Christian population following the Islamic conquest of Iraq in
the late 7th Century AD. Upper Mesopotamia having had an
established structure of dioceses by AD 500 followi