Syriacs and Assyrians

[MarkyMark]

During Horatio Southgate's travels through Mesopotamia, he encountered indigenous Christians, adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic Church who claimed an Assyrian ancestry and had distinct Assyrian names, but stated that the Jacobites (adherents of the Syriac Orthodox Church) of Syria were descendants of the Arameans, "whose chief city was Damascus" (Arameans).[40]

From American traveler c. 1840's
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_o...ldean_identity

If Syriacs are really Arameans while Chaldeans/Assyrians are Assyrians then Syriacs shouldn't be grouped under Assyrians.

[Zroota]

Syriac is a term to denote Assyrians (eastern and western Aramaic speakers) and Maronite Christians.

Think of it as an umbrella term.

All Assyrians are Syriacs, but not all Syriacs are Assyrian.