List of Assyrian settlements

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The following is a list of current Assyrian towns and villages. It is worth mentioning that a good amount of Assyrians in the Middle East live in cities and not rural areas because of events during the 20th century (see Assyrian genocide.) These cities include Arbil, Dohuk, Mosul, Baghdad, Kirkuk, Basra, Tehran, Urmia, Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Istanbul. Inhabitants of these villages and towns are Assyrian people who speak Aramaic and follow primarily the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Syriac Catholic Church and Ancient Church of the East. Most are in northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and northeastern Syria, a region in and around the traditional and historic Assyrian homeland.

Currently, there are a number of villages in northern Iraq that are emptied. This is mostly due to the Al-Anfal Campaign of the 1980s.

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Iraq

Arbil Province

Settlement Aramaic Note(s)
Ankawa ܥܢܟܒܐ
Armota ܐܪܡܘܬܐ
Batas ܒܬܣ
Darbandokeh ܕܪܒܢܕܘܟ
Diyana ܕܝܢܐ
Harir ܗܪܝܪ
Hawdiyan
Hinari
Rowanduz ܪܘܢܕܣ
Seerishmi ܣܝܪܫܡܝ
Shaqlawa ܫܩܠܒܐ
Qalata ܩܠܬܐ

Dohuk Province

Dohuk District

Semel District

Emptied villages

Zakho District

Emptied villages

Amadiya District

Emptied villages

Shekhan District

Akre District

Emptied villages

Ninawa Province

Iran

West Azarbaijan Province

Syria

Al Hasakah Province

Homs

Turkey

Batman Province

Diyarbakır Province

Elazığ Province

Hakkari Province

Mardin Province

Şırnak Province

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