- Assyrian king Ashurbanipal
Assyrians — inhabitants of Assyria, a state on the Tigris in the northern region of Mesopotamia, neighboring Persia and Susiana. Assyria existed for almost two thousand years, from the 24th century BC until its destruction in the 7th century BC (around 609 BC) by Media and Babylonia. The Neo-Assyrian Empire (750–620 BC) is considered the first empire in human history.
The ancient Assyrians mainly consisted of representatives of haplogroup J (mostly J2 and less J1), followed probably by R1b-L23 and to a lesser extent haplogroups E1b1b, G, and T. [Maciamo Hay 2008]
VARIANT NAMES: Latin. Assyrii, Assirii, Asyrii, Syri, Siri, Syrae, Greek. Άσσυριοι, Russian. Assyriytsy, Khorog.
Sources:
Ethnogenesis of the Abkhazians. D.A. Arshba, 2015