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FORMER SOVIET UNION History Assyrians , Center for Russian Studies, NUPI - Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Assyrians came to in 1828 , that delineated a border between Russia and Persia . Many Assyrians found themselves suddenly under Russian sovereignty and thousands of relatives crossed the border to join them. The second wave was a result of the repression and violence during and after WWI. The third wave came after WWII, when Moscow unsuccessfully tried to establish A Satellite State In Iranian Kurdistan . Soviet troops withdrew in 1946 , and left the Assyrians exposed to exactly the same kind of retaliation that they had suffered from the Turks 30 years earlier. Again, many Assyrians found refuge in the Soviet Union, this time mainly in the cities. Soviet power in the thirties repressed the Assyrians' religion and persecuted religious and other leaders. In recent years, the Assyrians have tended to assimilate with Armenians, but their cultural and ethnic identity, strengthened through centuries of hardships, found new expression under Glasnost . USSR Census
:8,000 - 7,000 "Assyro-Chaldean" refugees in Tbilissi Eden Naby, “Les Assyriens d'Union soviétique,” Cahiers du Monde russe, 16/3-4. 1975 :2,000 Assyrians in Yerevan Eden Naby, “Les Assyriens d'Union soviétique,” Cahiers du Monde russe, 16/3-4. 1975 :15,000 Assyrians from Hakkari , 10,000 from Urmia and Salmas in the Russian region of Rostov A. Chatelet (Supérieur de la mission catholique de Téhéran), Question assyro-chaldéenne, Quartier général - Bureau de la Marine, Constantinople, 31 août 1919
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NEAR EAST Lebanon estimates on December 31, 1994, by province (Muhafazat) Albert H. Hourani, Minorities in the Arab World, London: Oxford University Press, 1947 1932 census and further estimates Turkey 1914: Asiatic Turkey 863,000M.Y.A . Lilian, Assyrians Of The Van District, 1914 Israel, Palestine, Jordan AMERICA Argentina
Canada 2001 Census : Assyrian - 6,980 United States
EUROPE Belgium Assyrians in Belgium came mostly as refugees from the Turkish towns of Midyat and Mardin in Tur Abdin , most of them are Syriac Orthodox (''Süryani''), some Chaldean Catholics (''Keldani''). Their three main settlements are in Brussels (municipalities of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode - where they've got their only elected municipal councilman, Ibrahim Erkan -, Brussels and Etterbeek ), Liège and in Mechelen . France There are believed to be some 15,000, mainly concentrated in the northern French suburbs of Sarcelles , Gonnesse and Villiers-le-Bel. They are drawn from the same few villages in what is now south west Turkey. Greece The first migrants of Assyrians in Greece came in 1934, and settled in the areas of , a suburb of Athens , and they number about 2,000 Ethnologue report for Greece . Netherlands Sweden In the latter part of the 1970s, about 12,000 Syrian Orthodox Assyrians from Lebanon , Turkey and Syria immigrated to Sweden. They considered themselves persecuted for religious reasons but were never acknowledged as refugees. Those who had already lived in Sweden for a longer period were finally granted residence permit for humanitarian reasons. Swedish Minister for Development Co-operation, Migration and Asylum Policy, Migration 2002, June 2002 The dividing line in Sweden between Syrians and Assyrians lies between the religiously defined group: Syrians, who are Syrian Orthodox Christians, and the politically or ethnically determined category: Assyrians, whose members belong to several different Christian beliefs (the majority are of course also Syrian Orthodox Christians) but whose religious affiliation is toned down. Dan Lundberg, ''Christians from the Middle East'', A virtual Assyria |