Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Assyrian/Chaldo-Assyrian/Syriac Americans are American citizens of Non-Arab Semitic Mesopotamian descent. The United States constitutes the largest population of Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people in the diaspora. They are an Eastern Aramaic speaking Christian ethnic group who descend from the ancient Assyrians. Almost all are followers of the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Ancient Church of the East, the Syriac Orthodox Church (15,700), and the Syriac Catholic Church, the remainder are members of various Assyrian Protestant.Differing names are often accepted for this ethnic group. They are historically indigenous to northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran, and northeast Syria, a region encompassing what was ancient Assyria from the 25th century BC through to the 7th century AD. The earliest term used to describe them was Assyrian, but others have come in to play due to largely theological differences. The term Syriac (an Indo-European derivative of the earlier term Assyrian) is commonplace, but is often used as a catch all term to describe all Eastern Rite Christians from the Near East, regardless of ethnicity. It is acceptable to Assyrians, as it historically and originally meant Assyrian.The terms Chaldean, Chaldean Catholic and Chaldo-Assyrian originated in the 18th century, and are also used for those Assyrians who split from the Assyrian Church of the East and entered communion with the Roman Catholic Church between the 16th and 18th centuries AD.. }
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- Syriac_Americans abstract "Assyrian/Chaldo-Assyrian/Syriac Americans are American citizens of Non-Arab Semitic Mesopotamian descent. The United States constitutes the largest population of Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people in the diaspora. They are an Eastern Aramaic speaking Christian ethnic group who descend from the ancient Assyrians. Almost all are followers of the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Ancient Church of the East, the Syriac Orthodox Church (15,700), and the Syriac Catholic Church, the remainder are members of various Assyrian Protestant.Differing names are often accepted for this ethnic group. They are historically indigenous to northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran, and northeast Syria, a region encompassing what was ancient Assyria from the 25th century BC through to the 7th century AD. The earliest term used to describe them was Assyrian, but others have come in to play due to largely theological differences. The term Syriac (an Indo-European derivative of the earlier term Assyrian) is commonplace, but is often used as a catch all term to describe all Eastern Rite Christians from the Near East, regardless of ethnicity. It is acceptable to Assyrians, as it historically and originally meant Assyrian.The terms Chaldean, Chaldean Catholic and Chaldo-Assyrian originated in the 18th century, and are also used for those Assyrians who split from the Assyrian Church of the East and entered communion with the Roman Catholic Church between the 16th and 18th centuries AD.".