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What about a less victorious Britain in the Middle-East?
I don't know if it's really fesible, but could things bog down in Palestine and Mesopotamia long enough for that when Central Powers are defeated, UK could only have limited advantages, France even less and these supporting an Assyrian revolt for trying to controlling via proxy a territory they couldn't have by conquest?
i dont really have a clear idea yet. i was hoping a POD that makes the assyrians a buffer for rome/byzantium and parithia/sassasins, but that seems extremely ASB. i dont want to butterfly the persians, but if it comes to that maybe.What would you call an Assyrian state?
The name had many definitions :located in ancient Assyria, a state of a group pinguistically close to akkadian, or the modern Assyrian population?
Assuming you meant the first, you had natives kingdoms as Osroene or Corduene that could fit your request IOTL.
Now I don't think they considered themselves Assyrians, or that someone actually did at this point : after the fall of their empire, Assyrians seems to not have known a really unified polity.
If you meant a neo-Assyrian empire, the best bet is to butterfly away the Persian rise, and allow a sub-kingdom (regarding Neo-Babylonian Empire) to survive (something not that hard to me, giving that the last ruler of Babylon was an Assyrian).
After a while, you could see a new Assyrian independent kingdom appearing.
Butterflying Persians away would provoke huge butterflies, so it's hard to say what would happen next, at least for me. Someone more knowledgable could probably help.
What's your idea? It could come in hand in order to help you.
how do you give the british and russians an incentive to create an assyrian state? and what resources does the modern assyria area have that would give the british that incentive?It's certainly possible, just not very likely.
The Assyrians fought with the Entente in WWI, and were promised some kind of an independent state on the Nineveh plains. These promises were made by junior and mid-level commanders and officials, and thus not considered binding, but in different circumstances Britain and/or Russia might be a more open to the idea of creating Assyria.
EDIT: what I just wrote applies mostly for a post-1900 PoD, and only if the Aramaic-speaking self-designated "Assyrians" of the modern age count.
By the time Sassanids were a thing, Assyrians ceased to be one.i dont really have a clear idea yet. i was hoping a POD that makes the assyrians a buffer for rome/byzantium and parithia/sassasins
A political survival of an Assyrian kingdom (I mean, a kingdom directly issued from Neo-Assyrian Empire) may come to that, I think. It wouldn't be the PoD (that should be more about how the neo-Assyrian Empire fell), though.. i dont want to butterfly the persians, but if it comes to that maybe.
By the time Sassanids were a thing, Assyrians ceased to be one.
It's not ASB (Romans having used the name of Assyria for one of their short-lived provinces points that a political entity named as such can exist) but I'm not sure why Romans or Persians would have preferred building out of their traditional client kingdoms another one.