Assyrian

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Assyrian may commonly refer to:

• Assyrian people (an ethnic group of descendants of Ancient Assyria who are indigenous to Upper Mesopotamia)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (one of the predominant languages of the Assyrian people)

In antiquity

• ancient Assyria
  • the Old Assyrian period (Middle Bronze Age)
  • the Middle Assyrian period (Late Bronze Age)
  • the Neo-Assyrian period (Early Iron Age)
  • The Old Assyrian, Middle Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian stages of the Akkadian language, the written language of the Assyrian Empire from the 20th to 7th century BC
  • Either of two provinces of the Persian Empire:
    • Achaemenid Assyria
    • Asuristan (Parthian and Sassanid ruled Assyria)
  • Assyria (Roman province), a short-lived province of the Roman Empire
  • Asuristan, Assyria as a province of the Sassanid Empire

Religion

• Syriac Christianity
  • the East Syrian Rite
    • Assyrian Church of the East
    • Chaldean Catholic Church
    • Ancient Church of the East
  • the West Syrian Rite
    • Syriac Orthodox Church
    • Syriac Catholic Church

Other

• Assyrian cuisine
• List of Assyrians
• Assyrian genocide
• SS Assyrian, the name of at least two cargo ships
• The Assyrian (novel), a 1987 novel by Nicholas Guild
• The Last Assyrians, French documentary

See also

• Assyria (disambiguation)
• Names of Syriac Christians
• Upper Mesopotamia
• Syriac language
• Aramaic or Neo-Aramaic
• Akkadian language (the language spoken by ancient Assyrians before they adopted Aramaic)