Editing Persecution of Christians (section)

=== Timurid Empire ===
[[Timur]] (Tamerlane) instigated large scale massacres of Christians in [[Mesopotamia]], [[Persia]], [[Asia Minor]] and Syria in the 14th century AD. Most of the victims were indigenous [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] and [[Armenians]], members of the [[Assyrian Church of the East]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Church]]es, which led to the decimation of the hitherto majority Assyrian population in northern Mesopotamia and the abandonment of the ancient Assyrian city of [[Assur]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Khanbaghi|first=Aptin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iAbUEaXnfEC&pg=PA87|title=The fire, the star and the cross: minority religions in medieval and early modern Iran|publisher=I.B.Tauris|year=2006|isbn=9781845110567}}</ref> Tamerlane virtually exterminated the [[Church of the East]], which had previously been a major branch of Christianity but afterwards became largely confined to a small area now known as the [[Assyrian Triangle]].<ref name="nestoriangenocide">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nestorianism|title=Nestorianism &#124; Definition, History, & Churches &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=2 June 2023 }}</ref>