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Assyrian refugees from North Persia waiting by a railway in Mesopotamia

Place

Mesopotamia · today Iraq

Date

1919

Women and children sit on the ground among bundles and bedding, with more refugees and belongings stretching into the distance. Underwood & Underwood's caption: "Driven from their homes in North Persia, the unfortunates are seen waiting beside a railroad on a Mesopotamia desert for a [...?] train to transport them to suitable points of refuge." They were likely among the Assyrians who fled the Urmia region in 1918.

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