Assyrians in France
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Syriac Orthodox |
French Assyrians (Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܕܦܪܲܢܓܝܵܐ, French: Assyriens) alternatively (French: Assyriens) are French citizens of Assyrian ancestry. There are around 16,000 most of whom are concentrated in the Paris metropolitan area.
History
The community has a history in
Assyrian genocide. [2]
The bulk of the Assyrian presence dates back to the early 20th century, when some Assyrians, fleeing the
Assyrian genocide, found refuge in France.[1] Others arrived from rural south-eastern Turkey as a result of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in the 1960s and 70s. Their numbers swelled after the Iraq War
in 2003 by those arriving from Iraqi cities.
Population
There are 30,000 Assyrians living in France. The first Assyrians arrived in Marseille France in the 1920's as refugees from the genocide of the Assyrians by Turks during World War One, in which 750,000 Assyrians (75%) were killed, as well as 1 million Greeks and 1.5 million Armenians.
Notable French Assyrians
See also
External links
Notes
- ^ a b Wieviorka & Bataille 2007, pp. 166
- ^ "Assyrians Establish National Federation in France". AINA. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ AINA, 2018
- ^ Wieviorka & Bataille 2007, pp. 167
- ^ "Assyrians Establish National Federation in France".
References
- Wieviorka, Michel; Bataille, Philippe (2007). The lure of anti-Semitism: hatred of Jews in present-day France. BRILL. ISBN 9789004163379.