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Group of Nestorian (Assyrian) highlanders, Hakkari

Place: Hakkari · today Türkiye
Date: 1901

Twelve men and boys in turbans, felt caps and striped clothes pose in two rows, several with long beards and hands clasped. Published as "A Group of Nestorian Christians" in F.R. Maunsell's "Central Kurdistan", Geographical Journal, 1901.

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The Geographical Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (August 1901), F.R. Maunsell, "Central Kurdistan"; copy at Bibliothèque numérique kurde

F.R. Maunsell · Public domain

Group of Nestorian (Assyrian) highlanders, Hakkari

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