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Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun's memorandum on the Baqubah settlement scheme, 1920

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Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun's memorandum on the Baqubah settlement scheme, 1920

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1920

Refugees Document

First page of a typed memorandum by Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun, dated 19 April 1920, answering Colonel A. T. Wilson's scheme for settling the Baqubah refugees and recording the Assyrian chiefs' wish to remain together under British protection.

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