Location
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History of the
Assyrian people
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| Early history |
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Old Assyrian period (20th–15th c. BC)
Aramaeans (14th–9th c. BC)
Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–612 BC)
Achaemenid Assyria (539–330 BC)
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| Classical Antiquity |
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Seleucid Empire (312–63 BC)
Osroene (132 BC – 244 AD)
Syrian Wars (66 BC – 217 AD)
Roman Syria (64 BC – 637 AD)
Adiabene (15–116 AD)
Roman Assyria (116–118)
Christianization (1st to 3rd c.)
Nestorian Schism (5th c.)
Asuristan (226–651)
Byzantine–Sassanid Wars (502–628)
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| Middle Ages |
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Muslim conquest of Syria (630s)
Abassid rule (750–1256)
Emirs of Mosul (905–1383)
Principality of Antioch (1098–1268)
Turco-Mongol rule (1256–1370)
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| Modern History |
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Ottoman Empire (1534–1917)
Schism of 1552 (16th c.)
Massacres of Badr Khan (1840s)
Massacres of Diyarbakir (1895)
Rise of nationalism (19th c.)
Assyrian Genocide (1914–1920)
Independence movement (since 1919)
Simele massacre (1933)
Post-Saddam Iraq (since 2003)
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| See also |
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Assyrian continuity
Assyrian diaspora
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Although many sources cite the creation of a province named Assyria during Trajan's Parthian campaign, some disagreement exists regarding its exact location. Usually historians like Theodore Mommsen wrote that it was located north of the Roman Mesopotamia province, stretching into western Persia ( in an area called Media Atropatene) in actual northwestern Iran.
But some modern scholars argue that the Assyria Provincia was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in present-day central Iraq, a location that is corroborated by the text of the 4th-century Roman historian Festus. However, other sources contend that the province was located near Armenia and east of the Tigris, in a region formerly known as Adiabene, which was a neo Assyrian kingdom.