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Front page of Zahrire d-Bahra, the Urmia Assyrian newspaper

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1890s

Masthead and front page of Zahrire d-Bahra ('Rays of Light'), the Syriac-script newspaper printed at Urmia from 1849, with a rising-sun masthead and three columns of text. Commons dates it 1849, but the date line on this issue appears to read 1892.

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Front page of Zahrire d-Bahra, the Urmia Assyrian newspaper

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