Chaldoassyrians

The term Chaldoassyrian is a fusion of two nationalities: Chaldeans and Assyrians. The Assyrians denote the peoples' who are descended from the native Assyrians of the Assyrian empire. They continue to maintain their link with their Assyrian ancestors and are predominantly part of eastern rite churches such as the Assyrian Church of the East. The Chaldeans are peoples who are all part of the Chaldean Catholic Church and Henceforth claim to be a separate national identity.

In recent history there has been claims and indeed evidence that Chaldean Christians are in fact Assyrians who use to be part of the eastern rite church, but converted to Catholicism in the 1500's. This event marked the split between the Assyrians from the eastern rite churches and the newly catholicised Assyrian Christians who went on to become Chaldeans.

Assyrians and Chaldeans were divided except for the common Syriac language they both spoke. Both sides were found to engage in divisive practices that essentially hurt the standing of Christians in Iraq, and left them vulnerable to the activities of Kurds and Arabs. Therein, Chaldeans and Assyrians in post-Saddam Iraq have recognised the futility of their petty fighting and have come to realise and indeed respect each other once more as equals who share such striking similarities. The similarities of the Chaldeans and the Assyrians and their equally shared contempt for the Kurds and Arabs in Iraq led to the manifestation in post-saddam Iraq of the term Chaldoassyrian. The Chaldoassyrian term can be used by anyone who is of Chaldean or Assyrian heritage.

The Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) has adopted the term Chaldoassyrian. They seek to create an autonomous zone in Iraq that will be administered by Chaldoassyrians and serve to secure the future and improve the lives of both Chaldeans and Assyrians in Iraq and indeed the world.