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About the Native Country
Mesopotamia is a geographical landscape situated between the rivers of Tigris and Euphrates. The landscape borders to the northern Taurus Mountains, eastern Persia (Iran), the southern Persian Gulf, south-western Arabian desert, and north-western Syria. This area, with the overall area which is about the size of Scandinavia, has come to be called the Cradle of Civilization.
Assyria was an ancient centre in Mesopotamia, present northern Iraq. The Assyrian kingdom existed from circa 2 000 B.C. until its decline during the 700s B.C. Assyrians are the natives of current Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey (Turabdin).
From Greatness to Survival
The founder of the great empire of Assyria was King Ashur- Uballit. During his reign, Assyria came to strengthen its position as a great power in the Middle East. The Assyrian Empire had its peak during the reign of King Assarhaddon (680-669 B.C.), and stretched over Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea in the west, to Anatolia (present Turkey) and the Persian Gulf in southeast.
Assyria collapsed in the year 612 B.C, when Babylonians and Medes rioted against the Assyrians. The city of Nineveh was destroyed and lay in ruins. As an unimportant village, Nineveh still existed and was inhabited until the 1200s. Not until the sacking of Timur Lenk in the 1400s, did the place completely fall into ruins and get abandoned. Nowadays, a field of ruins is all that is left. The close-by city of Mosul became the successor of Nineveh. After the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian people were scattered all over Mesopotamia. At this time, many Assyrians were massacred. Assyrians were forced to change nationality in order to survive, and the number of Assyrians was reduced – but the people survived.
Present Iraq and Turkey are a part of Assyria, where provinces such as Nineveh still exist this very day. The Assyrians mainly live in north-western Iraq and north-eastern Syria. In these areas there is a struggle for an independent Assyria. An Assyria which could be inhabitated by 3,5 million Assyrians living in exile all over the world.
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