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Assyrian notables: bishops and maliks of the mountain tribes

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Assyrian notables: bishops and maliks of the mountain tribes

Date: 20th century

Clergy Portrait

A group of Assyrian notables standing in a row in front of a leafy shelter. The caption names the Metropolitan of Shemsdinan, the Bishop of Jelu and Baz, Malek Ismail of Upper Tiari, Malek Shemsdin of Lower Tiari and Malek Loka of Tkhoma among them.

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Source

Wigram, The Assyrians and Their Neighbours (1929), via Internet Archive

W. A. Wigram (author); photographers not named · Published 1929 in London (G. Bell & Sons); public domain in the United States (published before 1930).

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