{"slug": "assyrians", "label": "Assyrians", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrians", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q377085", "qid": "Q377085", "description": "ethnic group native to Mesopotamia", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-840, 1933], "span_label": ["841 BCE", "1933 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Assyrian people"], "related": [{"slug": "cimmerians", "label": "Cimmerians", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phrygia", "label": "Phrygia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iraq", "label": "Iraq", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "israel", "label": "Israel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arabs", "label": "Arabs", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "caspian-sea", "label": "Caspian Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ray-iran", "label": "Ray, Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sennacherib", "label": "Sennacherib", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "esarhaddon", "label": "Esarhaddon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-israel-samaria", "label": "Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -840, "year_label": "841 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "841 BC—The First Assyrian Invasion of Israel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306362370#Events_and_trends", "title": "840s BC", "revid": 1306362370, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -721, "year_label": "722 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "722 BC: Israel is conquered by Assyrian king Sargon II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363514202#720s_BC", "title": "8th century BC", "revid": 1363514202, "section": "Events › 720s BC"}}, {"year": -695, "year_label": "696 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "696 BC—Cimmerian forces begin a conquest of Phrygia (modern Turkey), having failed in their efforts to defeat the Assyrians and moved into Anatolia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292140577#Events_and_trends", "title": "690s BC", "revid": 1292140577, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -678, "year_label": "679 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 681–669 BCE), the son of Sennacherib, defeated the Cimmerians and killed their king Teušpa at Ḫubišna. Esarhaddon appears to have reached Ḫubišna by passing through the Göksu River valley and bypassing the Anti-Taurus Mountains and Tabal proper.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370523084#679_BC", "title": "670s BC", "revid": 1370523084, "section": "Events and trends › 679 BC"}}, {"year": 957, "year_label": "957 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "957 Caspian Sea earthquake. It took place in the Caspian Sea and its vicinity. The earthquake is mentioned by several Arab and Syriac chronicle writers, who claimed that it mainly affected the region of Persian Iraq. The initial shocks lasted 40 days, but ceased for a while. The main earthquake then occurred, damaging the cities of Ray, Talikan, and Hulwan. A reported number of 150 villages were supposedly destroyed by the earthquake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512729#Caspian_Sea", "title": "957", "revid": 1341512729, "section": "Events › By place › Caspian Sea"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – On the orders of Talat Pasha, Haydar Bey organized an expedition against the Assyrians. He killed thousands of Assyrians along with Kurdish tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#April", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – Simele massacre: More than 3,000 Assyrian Iraqis are killed by Iraqi government troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371108771#August", "title": "1933", "revid": 1371108771, "section": "Events › August"}}]}