Immigration History
The earliest recorded Assyrian in the UK was Hormuzd Rassam the famed archaeologist. He became a diplomat in the UK in the mid-19th century and settled in Brighton. The theologian and orientalist Alphonse Mingana was also a notable early arrival in the Edwardian period. Assyrians have traditionally migrated to Britain from their ancestral homelands in Iraq, south eastern Turkey, north eastern Syria and north western Iran
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