Matran family of Shamizdin

Matran is an Assyrian word for Metropolitan or Archbishop. The Metropolitans of Shamizdin have always been known by their hereditary title of Mar Khnanishu. History records that there were at least 12 Metropolitans of Shamizdin since 1580 but the first two were not related to the Gida line and were actually loyal to the Pope

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Yana Zilberg, geboren in Ekaterinburg/Russland, absolvierte Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Uraler staatliche pädagogische Universität(Russland), kam im Jahr 2001 nach Österreich und schloss dort ihr Masterstudium "Inturkulturelle Kompetenzen" an der Donau-Universität Krems (2006)und Doktoratsstudium an der WU-Wien (2009) ab.