Shimun XIX Benyamin
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Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin served as the Catholicos-Patriach of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1903 to 1918. He was consecrated a metropolitan on March 1, 1903, by his uncle, the Catholicos-Patriar
Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin on or before 1913
Simko Shikak
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Ismail Agha Shikak, also known as Simko, was a Kurdish chieftain of the Shekak tribe. He was a warlord who controlled significant land and led thousands of Kurdish rebels who defeated the Qajar and Pa
Shimun XIX Benyamin
…Surma. His brother Hormizd was later killed while studying in Istanbul during the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915. Mar Shimun and Simko Shikak had planned to meet for future cooperation against the Turkish and Iranian governments, and eventually met in March 1918 in Kuhnashahir in Salmas. The…
Simko Shikak
A young Simko Shikak
Simko and his men in Sulaymaniyah to meet Mahmud Barzanji
A Persian Cossack Brigade soldiers with the corpse of Simko Shikak