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A mountain Syrian (Syriac Christian) of Tur Abdin

Place: Tur Abdin · today Türkiye
Date: 1890s

Photograph of a bearded man in a long white robe and dark headcloth standing on a rocky hillside, captioned "A Mountain Syrian". It appears in Parry's chapter on Hakh in Tur Abdin.

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Parry, Six Months in a Syrian Monastery (1895), via Internet Archive (Columbia University microfilm)

Parry, Oswald Hutton · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

A mountain Syrian (Syriac Christian) of Tur Abdin

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