Demografische Karte des Nahen Ostens des 7. Jahrhunderts
Von unreal-habdologist
Demografische Karte des Nahen Ostens des 7. Jahrhunderts
Von unreal-habdologist
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This won’t be controversial
Arabs are Semitics too. Technically, Arabs are the largest Semitic group even before Islam
Long live Ērānšahr
Like Arabs are not Semitic people 🙄 this map is … whatever
Semitic people hmmm
But, Arabs are Semitic people too
Both Arabs and Assyrians are semitic people. It’s odd to exclude them like that if you want to make a map for Semitic groups.
Can we stop using map chart for these kind of maps? And no this isn’t even accurate I’m sick of these instagram maps being reposted here 24/7
“Semitic peoples” but Assyrians and Arabs are labeled differently is just one of the many errors with this map
Love how this map casually labels Arabs and Assyrians separately from „Semitic peoples“ as if they’re running some exclusive club with a strict no-Semites policy. It’s like making a „European peoples“ map but putting Germans and French in their own special category. The cartographer really said „close enough“ and called it a day.
There are Assyrian cuneiform tablets dating as old as 900 B.C. on the existence of Arabic tribes in southern mesopotamia, where former Babylon and future Ctesiphon are.
And let’s not forget Arabaya (Hatra), whose kings were called „the king of Arabs“, dating back to 226 B.C.
All in All, this map deliberately make Arab’s existence in Iraq minimal, while also making arabs appear as a different group than other Semitic peoples.
What Semitic people? Arabs are Semitic too you know
These maps are lazy and inaccurate and I genuinely don’t understand why they keep getting posted here
This is horrendous lmao
The pre-600 Middle East didn’t have clean ethnic “territories” like this — populations were highly mixed, and identity was usually local, religious, or imperial, not ethnic-national.
– Arabs are massively overstated. Outside Arabia and desert fringes, most people in the Levant and Iraq were Aramaic-speaking; large-scale Arabization happened after Islam.
– “Semitic peoples” is not an ethnicity but a language family. Lumping Arameans, Phoenicians, Jews, etc. together is wrong.
– Iranians (Kurds, Persians, etc.) mixes unrelated groups and confuses Sasanian political control with ethnicity.
– Assyrians weren’t a tiny leftover group; by 600 CE “Assyrian” was mainly a Syriac Christian identity spread across northern Mesopotamia.
– Greeks/Rum is anachronistic. “Rum” is an Islamic-era term; people identified as Romans, and Anatolia wasn’t uniformly Greek.
– Armenians and Copts are oversimplified, ignoring major internal diversity.
– The Caucasus is wildly simplified.
– Many groups are missing (Jews, Phoenicians, Nabataeans, South Arabians).
So wrong
Assyrians were bigger than that. They were majority through Nineveh, Erbil, Kirkuk, Tur Abdin and the Western parts of the Hakkari Mountains, not to mention Beth Kokhe which was Ktesiphon
No such thing as “Semitic” people there are only Semitic languages
Crap.
* Roman / Rum is not an ethnicity. Greek is.
* Anatolian people spoke their own language like Cappadocian which was not related to Greek.
* Ethnic Greeks lived in mostly in coastal cities.
* Trebizond was a Greek city, not a Kartvelian one.
* Cypriots and Levantines were not Greeks, but semitic people.
* Kurds as a separate group did not existed in 5th century BC.
* Ghassanids and Lakhsmids, two pre Islamic Arab kingdom, are shown as Semitic peoples, not Arabs. That’s wrong.
* Yemenites were also arabs.
* People of Mesopotamia were mostly Semitic, not Persian.
Welcome back to r/postingmapstomakepoliticalstatementsratherthantoenjoymaps
Nations AND ethnic groups?
Gurl.
A great example of Christian-Israeli propaganda disguised as history
Made in America, 100% guaranteed
This looks like israeli propaganda, arabs are also Semitic people
So where did Anatolian went if turkey were Greek . I though Turkey people were not Turk/Greek /Armenian/Kurd . They are Anatolian people’s.