The Assyrian independence (also known as the Assyrian Question) is a political movement and ideology that supports the creation of an Assyrian state or an autonomy for the Syriac-speaking Christian Assyrian people in northern Iraq.
The issue of Assyrian independence has been brought up many times throughout the course of history from the end of World War I to the present-day Iraq War. The Assyrian-inhabited area of Iraq is located primarily but not exclusively in the Ninawa-Mosul region in northern Iraq where the biblical Assyrian capitals of Nineveh and Ashur were located. This area is known as the "Assyrian Triangle."
Read more about Assyrian Independence: World War I and Aftermath (1914–1924), Post-World War II Era (1946–1958), Assyrians in The Republic of Iraq (1958–2003), Post-invasion Iraq (2003–present)
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“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold:”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
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