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Assyrian soldiers keeping order in the streets of Urmia, 1918

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 1918

Photograph of armed men with rifles and bandoliers in a muddy street lined with buildings. Werda's caption says Assyrian soldiers kept order in the conquered city after the Muslim defeat, that is Urmia in 1918.

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Werda, The Flickering Light of Asia, or the Assyrian Nation and Church (1924), via Internet Archive

Werda, Joel E. · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

Assyrian soldiers keeping order in the streets of Urmia, 1918

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