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From American traveler c. 1840'sDuring 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]
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.
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