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Kurdish and Christian frontiersmen from Tergawar and Dasht

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Kurdish and Christian frontiersmen from Tergawar and Dasht

Date
1916
World War

A large group of armed men, several on horseback, gathered on open ground before a village, captioned as Kurdish and Christian frontiersmen from Tergawar and Dasht, districts on the Urmia frontier. Plate from the 1916 pamphlet "The Pitiful Plight of the Assyrian Christians in Persia and Kurdistan."

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Source

Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books

Rockwell, William Walker (New York: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief) · The books in this collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

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