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Mata Khtata, an Assyrian village in Baz, Hakkari

Place: Hakkari · today Türkiye
Date: 1900s

Flat-roofed stone houses climb a wooded slope below bare mountains; the album caption reads "Matakhtata Baz. Our tent on roof". From a missionary photo album in the Shedd Family Papers, dated about 1900–1910.

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Presbyterian Historical Society, Shedd Family Papers (RG 16-0623), Turkey and Iran photo album

Mata Khtata, an Assyrian village in Baz, Hakkari

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