Assyria
State of Assyria | |
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| Capital and largest city | Mosul |
| Official languages | Syraic, Kurdish |
| "Autonomous province [of Kurdistan]" | |
Assyria, officially the State of Assyria (Syriac: ܐܘܼܚܕܵܢܵܝܵܐ ܐܵܫܘܿܪ, Arabic: دولة آشور, Kurdish: Dewleta Aşûrê) is a country located in West Asia, bordering Iraq to the south, Kurdistan to the north, Syria to the west, and Turkmeneli to the east.
Since then, Assyria has become a representative democracy with proportional representation and universal suffrage. The modern Assyrian government, still dominated by the Assyrian Socialist Party, having moved from an overtly Marxist position to a social democratic centre-left one, highly respects human rights of all its citizens. The country has the highest standard of living in the Middle East (something hotly contested by Israel, Lebanon, and Iran) and one of the lowest poverty rates in the world. Relations with neighboring states remains strained but local peace initiatives are underway to normalize and improve relations with several of Assyria's neighbors, especially Kurdistan.
Etymology
History
Geography
Climate
Environment
Politics and government
Assyria is a unitary parliamentary republic, with a president as the head of state and prime minister as head of government.
Military
Foreign relations
Economy
Assyria's main sources of revenue are tourism, oil, precious metals, machinery, food production, and renewable energy. Because Assyria is situated in the "fertile crescent," a stretch of agricultural territory in the Middle East, agriculture is one of the country's most important economic sectors. Assyria's ancient landmarks make tourism one of the country's most lucrative sources of revenue. Assyria's main source of wealth is tourism, with historians, archeologists, and clergy from all over the world flocking to its ancient monuments in Nineveh and Mosul each year. It was the capital of many ancient Mesopatamian empires, as well as an early Christian and later Islamic caliphates' capitals.
Mosul is a well-preserved center of Christianity in the Middle East, noted for its historic churches and monasteries, and it attracts a lot of attention. Mosul is twinned with the cities of Jerusalem and Damascus because of its importance to the two other Abrahamic faiths, Islam and Judaism, as well as ancient pre-Abrahamic faiths. In the Middle East, Assyria is one of three largely Christian states, the other being Chaldea and Phoenicia.