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Colonel Baijan of Mawana and his Tergawar Assyrian fighters

Place: Tergawar
Date: 1918s

Armed Assyrian men of Tergawar in fur hats, sashes and cartridge belts, with rifles. The source says the decorated leader and elder, Col. Baijan of Mawana, is seated at left with a sash across his chest.

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Unknown · Public domain (as tagged on Commons). Published in J. E. Werda, The Flickering Light of Asia (1924), p. 70.

Colonel Baijan of Mawana and his Tergawar Assyrian fighters

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