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Tyari pilgrims at Qudshanis for the feast of Mar Shalita, 1912

Place: Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date: 1912

Men from Tyari in conical felt hats sit and crouch against a stone wall at Qudshanis, where they had come for the feast of St Shalita on 19 September.

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AINA (Assyrian International News Agency), "Pictures of Assyrian Villages in Turkey in 1912" (scans by George Slyvus; captions by Nicholas al-Jeelo)

Sergei Petrovich Olferiev (1875-1942), Russian vice-consul at Van

Tyari pilgrims at Qudshanis for the feast of Mar Shalita, 1912

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