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"Assyrians still homeless": the Khabur settlement in the Illustrated London News, 1936

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"Assyrians still homeless": the Khabur settlement in the Illustrated London News, 1936

Place
Khabur · today Syria
Date
1936
RefugeesVillage lifeNewspaper

A page of photographs from the Assyrian settlement on the Khabur in north-eastern Syria, where refugees from the 1933 massacres in Iraq were provisionally housed: a village of adobe beehive houses, water-wheels (norias), Assyrians working with tractors, two tribal chiefs and a group receiving clothing. The text describes the Archbishop of Canterbury's national appeal for a permanent settlement in the Ghab.

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Source

Internet Archive (The Illustrated London News, 11 April 1936, p. 638)

The Illustrated London News

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