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First homes built by Assyrian settlers on the Khabur, 1935

Place: Khabur · today Syria
Date: 1935

Assyrian settlers, men and children, stand before newly built beehive-domed mud houses on the Khabur in north-east Syria, from the magazine Deo Gratias (July 1935) held in the French diplomatic archives at Nantes.

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Wikimedia Commons (from Deo Gratias, July 1935, pp. 108–111, Centre des archives diplomatiques de Nantes)

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First homes built by Assyrian settlers on the Khabur, 1935

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