| Chapter 1: | The Homeland and Origin of the Independent Assyrian Tribes of Tiyari and Hakkari |
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Endnotes
1. J. W. Etheridge, The Syrian Churches: Their Early History, Liturgies and Literary (London: Longman, Green, and Longmans, 1846), 18, 128; Asaheel Grant, The Nestorians, or, The Lost Tribes (London: J. Murray, 1841), 123–124, 128, 132–134.
2. Grant, The Nestorians, 121.
3. A. T. Olmstead, History of Assyria (1923; repr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968), 13.
4. Earl Percy, The Highlands of Asiatic Turkey (London: E. Arnold, 1901), 11.
5. Rev. Joel E. Werda, The Flickering Light of Asia, or, The Assyrian Nation and Church, (n.p.: The Author, 1924; repr., Chicago: Assyrian Language and Culture Classes, 1990), 205. Hakkari is 1700 metres above sea level and 210 kilometres south of Lake Van. The Assyrian villages were spread throughout the region stretching from the border of Persia to the Tigris in the west, and from the south shores of Lake Van to Mosul. The location could be defined roughly as between latitudes 34° and 38°.
6. Etheridge, Syrian Churches, 128.
7. Arthur John Maclean and W. Henry Browne, The Catholicos of the East and His People (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1892), 29.
8. William F. Ainsworth, Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea and Armenia (London: John W. Parker, 1842), 2:209.
9. Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Wilson, Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc. (London: J. Murray, 1895), 239.
10. Ainsworth, Travels, 2:292.
11. Thomas Laurie, Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853), 257; Ainsworth, Travels, 2:233.
12. Edwin M. Bliss, ‘Kurdistan and the Kurds’, Andover Review 4 (1885), as cited in Cambridge Bibliographical Dictionary, new edition (Cambridge, 1936), 20.
13. C. James Rich, Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh with Journal of a Voyage Down the Tigris to Baghdad (London: J. Duncan, 1836, repr., 1895–1896), 1:275–276, n. *. Rich used the terms ‘Assyrians’ and ‘Chaldeans’ to refer to the same people.
14. Rich, Narrative, 1:279.
15. George Percy Badger, The Nestorians and Their Rituals with the Narrative of a Mission to Mesopotamia and Koordistan in 1842, and of a Late Visit to These Countries (London: Joseph Masters, 1852) 1:212; cp. M. Y. A. Lilian, Assyrians of the Van District During the Rule of the Ottoman Turks, trans. Rabi Fransa Babilla (1914; repr., Tehran: Assyrian Youth Cultural Society, 1968), 4.