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Six Assyrian Levies at camp in Baqubah, 1920

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1920

Six Assyrian Levies stand in a row at a camp in Baqubah, in mountain dress with feathered caps and bandoliers. Baqubah held the great Assyrian refugee camp at this time.

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Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University

Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian · CC BY-SA 4.0 (rights holder: "No known copyright restrictions")

Six Assyrian Levies at camp in Baqubah, 1920

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