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Assyrian refugees from Tiyari and Tkhuma encamped near Urmia, 1915

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1915

Assyrian Christian refugees from Tiyari and Tkhuma sit in a grove hung with drying meat and clothing, autumn 1915. The original caption says they brought their sheep, wheat, kettles and clothes and had no shelter for the winter.

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Wikimedia Commons (from Rockwell, The Pitiful Plight of the Assyrian Christians in Persia and Kurdistan, 1916)

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Assyrian refugees from Tiyari and Tkhuma encamped near Urmia, 1915

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