Abbas, Shah of Persia, 77, 101

Abbas II, Shah of Persia, 78

Abbasid Caliphate, 63

Abdeshu, Patriarch of Church of the East, 76, 78, 85

Abdulmecid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 115, 119, 127, 140, 145, 148, 238

Abgar V, King of Edessa, 49

Adiabene, kingdom of, xvi, 2, 18, 22, 24, 31, 49, 93, 193

Addai, 21–22, 35, 57, 82

Afshars, 5, 13, 39, 105, 111, 179, 206

aghas, Kurdish landlords, 9, 247, 261, 263, 275, 281

Ahlul Dhimma, or, Ahl al Kitab ('People of the Book’),, 135, 138, 147, 149, 153

al Jezirah (al Jazirah), 83, 84, 94, 95, 97, 226, 245, 249, 257, 259, 260–261, 264, 268, 270, 274

al Rahawi al Majhul, historian of Urhay, 94, 109

Albaq, 6, 12, 49

Alexandria, 50, 52, 55

Aleppo, 73–74, 79, 96, 148, 226, 265

Ali al Qurani, historian of the Kurds, 103

Alqush (Alqosh), 20, 36, 142

Amadia (Amedia), 3–4, 7, 11, 41, 103, 160, 167, 174–179, 181, 183–185, 188, 190, 193, 196, 198, 219, 251, 268, 290

Amid (Diyarbakir), 68

Anglican churches, 59

Antioch, 50, 52–55, 62, 68

Antiochians, 54

Aqueducts, 41

Arabs (Arabians), 21, 59, 94–95, 135, 157–158, 170, 189

Arabia, 50, 215, 236

Aramaic, 21, 49, 58, 66

Arbil, 17–18, 20, 23, 31, 95, 101, 193

Archbishop of Canterbury, 11, 89, 216–217

Armenia, 21, 25–26, 28–29, 45, 63–64, 81–82, 97, 102–103, 140, 142

Armenians, 21, 45, 64, 81, 97, 102, 140, 150, 152, 157, 162, 280

Asia, x, 3, 50, 53, 59, 63, 123, 159, 160, 163, 189

Asheetha, capital of Lower Tiyari, 3, 7–8, 42, 46, 179, 181, 200, 208–210, 234, 262–263, 291

Ashur, 1, 22–23

Assyria902–103, 1–2, 7, 11, 14–19, 21–23, 28, 30–31, 33, 49, 61, 66, 74, 77, 90, 92–97, 107, 158, 160, 163, 166, 174, 177, 190, 279, 281, 283

Assyrians, ancient, ix, 6, 15, 44, 193

Assyrian ChristiansSee also Churches, Assyrian., 13, 16, 28, 178, 202, 242, 262, 280

Azerbaijan, xi, 2, 5–6, 12, 18, 21, 23, 35, 40, 42, 45–46, 77, 79, 87, 91–96, 103, 163, 173, 179, 189, 198, 281–284, 287