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The Assyrians of today are the indigenous Aramaic-speaking descendants of the ancient Assyrian people, one of the earliest civilizations emerging in the Middle East, and have a history spanning over 6760 years.

Although the Assyrian empire ended in 612 B.C., history is replete with recorded details of the continuous presence of the Assyrian people till the present time.

Assyrians are not Arabian or Arabs, we are not Kurdish, our religion is not Islam.

The Assyrians are the indigenous Aramaic-speaking Christian people of the Middle East, with our own unique language, culture and heritage.

For more information, please read the About Atour section, including:

• The State of Assyria

• The Assyrian Holocaust

• The Assyrian History Timeline

• The Assyrian National Petition

• The Assyrian Awareness Campaign

The English word “Assyrian” comes from classical Greek “Assurios” through Latin “Assyrius”; the Greeks borrowed it in the 8th century BC directly from the Assyrians, who at that time called themselves “Assurayeh,” originating from their capital city “Assur”.

The Aramaic word “Athourayeh” was likewise borrowed from Assyrian, but earlier, in the 12th century BC, when the later “Assurayeh” was pronounced “Athourayeh” [the sound (th) shifted to (s) in Assyrian about 1100 BC]; still earlier, about 2300-1600 BC, the word had been pronounced “Ashur” and “Ashourayeh”. The initial syllable in “Assurayeh” was frequently dropped in the Neo-Assyrian period (900-600 BC), so that “Assurayeh” also had a variant “Surayeh,” which the Greeks took over as "Surios" (the English equivalent being Syrian). There was originally no difference in meaning between Assurayeh/Surayeh and Assurios/Surios; both meant the same thing.

For more information:

The Reality of the Title Assyrian

Assyrian Names and Meanings for Boys and Girls

The word Atour means Assyria in the Aramaic language and the land of the stateless Assyrians.

For more information:

Please read the About Atour section, including:

• The State of Assyria

• The Assyrian Holocaust

• The Assyrian History Timeline

• The Assyrian National Petition

• The Assyrian Awareness Campaign

We support an academic viewpoint which defines Assyrians as the national title of our people, as referenced in the Assyrian History Timeline and other online projects and websites.

Related Information:

• 2010 U.S. Census Form:
  How-To-Instructions

• U.S. Census 2000 section

The Aramaic Lexicon and Concordance (Aramaic Dictionary) is located in the "Education" section, the main page, and other areas where the link "Shlama" appears (check the greetings above).

This online Aramaic dictionary contains over 72,000 words. After you click on the link above, use the "Help!" section to learn how to install the Estrangelo font which will allow you to properly view the Aramaic words in the dictionary.

http://www.atour.com/dictionary

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Or select a category:

Main RSS, Assyria, National, International, AAHGN, People, Library, Education, Government, Religion, Financial, Health, Fine Arts, Sports, Forums

A collection of Aramaic (Syriac) fonts can be downloaded for FREE from here: http://www.atour.com/fonts.

To properly display the Aramaic (Syriac) fonts and documents on this website, download and install the following recommended font, (Estrangelo Version 1.1) as used on http://www.atour.com.

For font installation help, view the online Aramaic Dictionary help section.

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We do our best to simplify the process of sending information for future posting on this website to individuals and organizations by displaying this statement at the end of the sections and documents at Atour:

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We recommend contacting the source of that event and suggest using this website's resources to bring further awareness to important projects and events.

Additionally, we highly recommend posting your community news, events, and photographs at the Assyrian Forums to bring further awareness to important information.

Yes, a section was developed specifically for mobile users. Simply enter the following URL web address as a bookmark into your Internet-enabled PDA or mobile phone and your device will then be able to view this website's current news documents.

http://www.atour.com/mobile

We highly recommend adding your website into the FREE Assyrian Directory to help in promoting your website specifically to Assyrians.

After your website has been successfully added in the Assyrian Directory, it will also be made available to our main search engine. Thus, there will be three new ways of visitors finding your website.

1. Assyrian Directory - a comprehensive Assyrian web directory
2. AIM Search - our extensive search engine which also searches the Assyrian Directory
3. Search Directories - in the near future as Google, Yahoo and other search directories routinely add new Assyrian Directory pages to their website databases on a weekly basis

Click on Add to add your website's information.

We look forward to working together with you within this online community.
To effectively collaborate on projects, we require volunteers (including ourselves) to register and post their information in the Assyrian Forums, history and other forum categories.

Registration benefits:

1. editing and community feedback purposes

2. facilitate communications between volunteers and coordinate projects

3. bring awareness to important events and information

Additionally, you can also send us information through this contact form.

The information in this website (www.atour.com) is in the Public Domain or Creative Commons, unless otherwise stated as copyrighted by other respective companies, organizations or individuals, and can be reproduced without permission from atour.com.

We respect copyright laws and believe in the fair use of copyrighted work for the purposes of news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research and preservation.

Please make a link from your website pages to this website and use the public domain information in your media programs, publications, websites, radio or television programs to bring further awareness to the plight of the Assyrian nation.

For detailed information, please view our Terms of Service information.

We do not share email addresses or lists with any organization, company, and/or individual. Email addresses and correspondences are considered private and confidential material.

As an alternative, if your interested in sending and receiving private messages, register in the Assyrian Forums. Registered members have the ability to send and receive private messages with each other by using this system. Your email address is never shown and remains confidential to protect you from SPAM messages. This communications feature allows other registered people within the Assyrian Forums to privately and safely contact you online.

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• Partnership Program
  long-term advertisement and investment

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When your advertising banner is updated on the system, we will send you an email message with login information (URL, username and password) to access and view the current statistics of your advertisement.

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