Alqosh
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Alqosh is one of the most famous Christian villages in Iraq.
Its residents are of Chaldean descent, and have spread widely around the world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Nearby villages to the mountainous Alqosh, including Batnaya and Tulkeiph, speak a similar, but distinguishable language known as Assyrian.
Located approximately 40km northeast of Mosul (Nineveh), Alqosh is thought to have existed for thousands of years, and its residents have been known to be mentioned in the Bible. Monasteries located in Iraq are over hundreds of years old, and Rabban Hormiz Monastery is an example.
Alqosh is a "Chaldo-Assyrian" village in the plains of Northern Iraq. The inhabitants are servants of the "Chaldean" Roman Catholic Rite but refer to be called Assyrian. We have a mix of ethnic v. religious titles with the "Chaldean" population in general. In vilages like Alqosh, Tel-Kef(p), Betnyae etc. We have a whole community of Roman Catholics based on clear archialogical and historically written evidence who have distorted their ethnicity for their religion.
History proves that whomever claims to have Ancient Chaldean descent must have come from the Shi'ite Muslim areas of Sourthern Iraq. Ancient Chaldea that was a vassel state of ancient Assyria, located in Southern Iraq around Babylon, only lasted a decade or so after the fall of the whole Assyrian Empire in 612 B.C.E.
Today's "Chaldean" community consists of Roman Catholic separatists whom were not in favor with the Nesoterian Church of the East. The argument that began in 1552 C.E. split the Assyrians apart. One large population that are still partial to the old Nesoterian Church and the remaining population is the new Chaldean community that come from a few Assyrian villages in Northern Iraq that refer to be called "Chaldean" instead of their original and true ethnicity Assyrian.