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Patriarch Mar Shimun XXI with his aunt Surma Khanim

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Patriarch Mar Shimun XXI with his aunt Surma Khanim

Date
1920s
ClergyPortrait

The young Patriarch Mar Shimun XXI (second from left) seated with his aunt Surma Khanim (centre, in a light dress) and three Assyrian men, one of them armed, in front of a tent.

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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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