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14 hours ago · It is denied by historian John Joseph, himself a modern Assyrian, [104] [105] and Semitologist Aaron Michael Butts. [ 106 ] Eastern Syriac Christians are on record, but only from the late nineteenth century, calling themselves Aturaye , Assyrians, [ 107 ] and the region now in Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey was still known as Assyria ( Athura , Assuristan ) until the 7th century AD.
