PhotographAA-0080

Nestorians (Assyrians) from the plain

Place: Persia · today Iran
Date: 20th century

A large crowd of men, women and children, captioned "Nestorians from the Plain", gathered in a field. Likely the Urmia plain of north-west Persia, the subject of the book.

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Shahbaz, The Rage of Islam (1918), via Internet Archive

Yonan H. Shahbaz · Public domain (published 1918)

Nestorians (Assyrians) from the plain

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