Assyrian nationalism
Assyrian nationalism, sometimes known as Assyrianism, is a movement among the Assyrian people that advocates for their independence or autonomy in the historic Assyrian heartland in northern Mesopotamia, in what is today northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran. The Assyrian people culturally and demographically descend from the ancient Mesopotamian Bronze Age civilisation of Assyria, which was centred on the cities of Ashur and Nineveh and at its height conquered most of West Asia, with multiple empires controlling from Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran from its heartland in northern Mesopotamia.