Before weddings in this community, all the women arrive at the bride's house and each woman contributes a few stitches to a massive blanket.
An unusually large number of people of this ethnicity reside in Sodertalje, Sweden, where they comprise the majority of two major soccer teams. Before weddings in this community, all the women arrive at the bride's house and each woman contributes a few stitches to a massive blanket. This ethnic group celebrates a Halloween-like custom in which masked men armed with wooden swords and shields scare children into fasting, called Somikka. The American missionary Justin Perkins established the standard literary dialect of these peoples' language, known as Urmian. These people amusingly celebrate New Years' on April 1st with a festival called Kha b-Nisan. They celebrate "Martyr's Day" on August 7th to commemorate their systematic targeting in the 1933 (*) Simele massacre. The Armenian and Greek genocides accompanied a genocide of these people, who are also known as the Chaldeans and the Arameans. For 10 points, name this predominantly Syriac Christian ethnic group in the Middle East descended from the Mesopotamian people who had their capital at Nineveh.
An unusually large number of people of this ethnicity reside in Sodertalje, Sweden, where they comprise the majority of two major soccer teams.
Assyrians [or Syriacs; or Chaldeans; or Arameans prior to mention]