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Newspaper report of the death of Patriarch Mar Shimun, June 1918

Date: 1918

Article from the El Paso Herald of 15 June 1918, datelined London, reporting the killing of Mar Shimun, patriarch of the Assyrians, with a large portrait of him in robes and turban and an account of the Assyrians' flight in Persia.

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America (El Paso Herald)

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Newspaper report of the death of Patriarch Mar Shimun, June 1918

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