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bar:title from:start till:end text:"Syriac history" fontsize:M anchor:middle align:center width:10 color:subtitle
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at:232 text:Acts of Thomas
at:410 text:Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
at:431 text:Nestorian schism
at:512 text:Severus of Antioch
at:637 text:Fall of Antioch
at:685 text:Maronite Church
at:1299 text:Mongol invasion
at:1553 text:Chaldean Catholic Church
at:1662 text:Syriac Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch
at:1828 shift:(-2,0) text:Treaty of Turkmenchay
at:1845 shift:(-2,0) text:Assyriology
at:1914 text:Genocide
at:1920 text:Treaty of Sèvres
at:1933 text:Simele
at:1964 shift:(-130,0) text:Ancient Church of the East
at:1979 shift:(-150,0) text:Assyrian Democratic Movement
bar:hist1
from:start till:637 shift:(20,0) color:red text:Roman Syria
from:637 till:1031 shift:(2,0) color:green text:"Caliphate"
from:1098 till:1268 shift:(2,0) color:red text:Crusader states
from:1512 till:1908 shift:(2,-8) color:green text:"Ottoman Empire"
from:1919 till:end shift:(2,0) color:red text:"diaspora"
bar:hist2
from:15 till:116 shift:(-10,0) color:orange text:Adiabene
from:116 till:363 shift:(10,0) color:orange text:"Roman Assyria"
from:502 till:628 shift:(2,0) color:orange text:Byzantine-Sassanid Wars
from:890 till:1004 shift:(2,-8) color:green text:"Hamdanid dynasty"
from:1127 till:1222 shift:(2,0) color:green text:Zengids
from:1383 till:1508 shift:(2,-8) color:green text:"Mongol/Timurid rule"
from:2003 till:end shift:(-20,-0) color:orange text:Iraq war
from:2011 till:end shift:(-20,-0) color:orange text:Syrian civil war
bar:lives
from:154 till:222 shift:(-2,0) color:yellow text:Bardaisan
from:306 till:373 shift:(2,-10) color:yellow text:Ephrem
from:410 till:502 shift:(2,0) color:yellow text:Narsai
from:551 till:628 shift:(-5,0) color:yellow text:Babai the Great
from:640 till:708 shift:(2,-10) color:yellow text: Jacob of Edessa
from:1110 till:1171 shift:(2,0) color:yellow text:Jacob Bar-Salibi
from:1226 till:1286 shift:(2,-10) color:yellow text:Bar-Hebraeus
from:1868 till:1930 shift:(-20,-8) color:yellow text:Naum Faiq
from:1908 till:1975 shift:(-10,0) color:yellow text:Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII
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