where is the capital city of assyrians?
Assur
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 Assyrians had begun to adopt Christianity from the first century and Aramaic remained the spoken language of the region . 

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 In 650 , the area fell to the early Muslim conquests . However , the region remained Aramaic @-@ speaking and largely Christian well into the Middle Ages . Assyrians remain in the area to this day , and there are a number of Assyrian towns and villages in the region . In addition , cities such as Mosul , Dohuk , Erbil and Kirkuk have Assyrian populations . Most Assyrians remain Christian and retain the Aramaic language and script . 

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 After the Assyrian genocide , the Assyrians of the region were either depopulated or massacred . Currently , there are 5 , 000 Assyrians living in the region . 

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 It mostly incorporated the original Assyrian kingdom , corresponding with modern northern Iraq in the upper Tigris , the middle and upper Euphrates , modern @-@ day north eastern Syria ( Eber @-@ Nari ) and part of south @-@ east Anatolia ( modern Turkey ) . The Neo @-@ Assyrian Empire collapsed after a period of violent civil wars , followed by an invasion by a coalition of some of its former subject peoples , the Iranian peoples ( Medes and Persians ) , Babylonians , Scythians , and Cimmerians in the late 7th century BC , culminating in the Battle of Nineveh , and Assyria had fallen completely by 605 BC . Between 605 and 559 BC , Assyria was divided between the Median Empire to the east and the Neo @-@ Babylonian Empire to the west . Both parts were subsumed into the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BC , and it has been argued that they constituted the satrapies of Media and Athura , respectively . In Herodotus ' account the Ninth Tributary District comprised " Babylonia and the rest of Assyria " , and excluded Eber @-@ Nari . 

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 With Iraqi independence , the new Assyrian spiritual @-@ temporal leader , Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII the Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East , demanded the Assyrians be given autonomy within Iraq , seeking support from the United Kingdom and pressing his case before the League of Nations in 1932 . His followers planned to resign from the Assyrian Levies ( a military force under the command of the British that served British interests ) and to re @-@ group as a militia and concentrate in the north , creating a de facto Assyrian enclave . 
