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Tent camp of the first Assyrian settlers on the Upper Khabur, 1935

Place: Khabur · today Syria
Date: 1935

Rows of bell tents on the plain of the Upper Khabur in Syria, with a horse-drawn cart, stacked mud bricks and settlers in the foreground: the camp where Assyrians from Iraq lived while building their first villages.

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Internet Archive (The Sphere, 27 July 1935, p. 139; scan from the British Newspaper Archive)

The Sphere

Tent camp of the first Assyrian settlers on the Upper Khabur, 1935

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