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Refugee children from Tiyari in Persia, about 1915-1918

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Refugee children from Tiyari in Persia, about 1915-1918

Place
Persia · today Iran
Date
1910s
RefugeesWorld WarGenocide

Nine boys in felt caps and worn clothes stand against a mud wall; the album caption reads "Syrian refugee children from Tierry in Kurdiston, Persia." They were Assyrian children of the Tiyari district who fled the Hakkari mountains during the First World War.

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Source

General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, GCAH Mission Albums Gallery (Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church photograph albums)

Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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