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Jilu Assyrian refugees coming over the Asadabad Pass

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Jilu Assyrian refugees coming over the Asadabad Pass

Place
Asadabad Pass · today Iran
Date
1918
RefugeesWorld War

Assyrian refugees from Jilu, with women, children and bedding loaded on oxen and donkeys, walk down a dirt road through the Asadabad Pass in western Persia, 1918. One of Ariel Varges's photographs of the refugee column on the road from Hamadan to Baqubah.

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Source

Wikimedia Commons (copy of Imperial War Museums Q 25049, Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection)

Ariel Varges · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain ({{PD-UKGov}})

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