Suryani children play a game similar to "hopscotch" during school recess on Thursday, April 17, 2003, village of Hah in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey. In the background can be seen the bell tower to the Virgin Mary Church. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern Mesopotamia, the Tur Abdin region, for about 5,000 years. They are one of the oldest cultures to have adopted Christianity, doing so...
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Suryani children play a game similar to "hopscotch" during school recess on Thursday, April 17, 2003, village of Hah in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey. In the background can be seen the bell tower to the Virgin Mary Church. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern Mesopotamia, the Tur Abdin region, for about 5,000 years. They are one of the oldest cultures to have adopted Christianity, doing so some 300 years before the Romans. ...
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